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Question: Are there people you could ask to help influence important decisions in your favour?
Choices: "No, nobody" "Yes, a few people" "Yes, some people" "Yes, a lot of people"
Data: % of "Yes, a few people" "Yes, some people" "Yes, a lot of people"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany90.9%
2 United Kingdom86.4%
3 Australia84.7%
4 Canada84.0%
5 France83.1%
6 Japan 81.3%
7 Republic of Korea79.4%
8 United States79.2%
9 Sweden75.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.487299 X +5.568
Correlation coefficient (r)0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -31300.857035 X +77207.064
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.459758 X +84.706
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.832683 X +0.798
Correlation coefficient (r)0.134
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -63.563894 X +67.352
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.505
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.255