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Question: Have you attended a political meeting or rally, might you do that, or would you never under any circumstances do that?
Choices: "Have done it in the past year" "Have done it in the more distant past" "Have not done it but might do it" "Have not done it and would never do it"
Data: % of "Have done it in the past year" "Have done it in the more distant past"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway41.4%
2 Denmark40.4%
3 Canada39.4%
4 Slovakia38.3%
5 France38.1%
6 Austria35.9%
6 Germany35.9%
8 New Zealand32.5%
9 United States32.4%
10 Mexico32.0%
11 Switzerland30.8%
12 Finland30.6%
13 Spain30.1%
14 Latvia28.3%
14 Sweden28.3%
16 Israel27.9%
17 Netherlands25.9%
18 Ireland23.8%
19 Australia22.4%
20 Portugal 21.8%
21 Czech Republic21.2%
22 Slovenia19.6%
23 Belgium16.4%
24 United Kingdom15.6%
25 Japan14.9%
26 Chile14.6%
27 Republic of Korea11.9%
28 Hungary10.1%
29 Poland5.8%

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

No data for 9 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 3.080064 X +6.001
Correlation coefficient (r)0.544
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.296

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 95702.459927 X +21032.450
Correlation coefficient (r)0.402
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 3.724594 X +79.668
Correlation coefficient (r)0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.703604 X +1.391
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -12.662873 X +16.501
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.263
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069