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Question: How often are you asked to help influence important decisions in other people's favour?
Choices: "Never" "Seldom" "Occasionally" "Often"
Data: % of "Seldom" "Occasionally" "Often"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany80.6%
2 Japan 80.5%
3 Canada75.3%
4 United Kingdom73.4%
5 Sweden72.4%
6 Republic of Korea72.3%
7 Australia72.1%
8 France66.6%
9 United States65.4%

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 = -1.842181 X +8.147
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.195
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -87960.673077 X +115685.444
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.408
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 19.311235 X +67.713
Correlation coefficient (r)0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.839474 X +2.833
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.342
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.117

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -16.344130 X +26.738
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022