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Question: Have you contacted, or attempted to contact, a politician or a civil servant to express your views, 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:
38 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada44.0%
2 United States43.2%
3 Ireland35.9%
4 Austria34.8%
5 Australia33.3%
6 New Zealand31.4%
7 Finland24.9%
8 Denmark 24.7%
9 United Kingdom24.4%
10 Netherlands24.0%
11 Norway23.9%
12 France22.6%
13 Germany20.3%
13 Switzerland20.3%
15 Mexico20.2%
16 Uruguay19.4%
17 Sweden18.9%
18 Venezuela17.8%
19 Belgium17.6%
20 Latvia17.1%
21 Slovakia16.9%
22 Israel14.5%
23 Spain14.1%
24 Philippines13.3%
25 Slovenia12.9%
26 Chile12.6%
27 Russian Federation11.4%
28 Brazil11.1%
29 Republic of Korea10.4%
30 Czech Republic9.8%
31 Portugal9.3%
32 Taiwan8.3%
33 Bulgaria8.0%
34 South Africa7.7%
35 Cyprus7.2%
36 Hungary6.1%
37 Japan5.8%
38 Poland5.5%

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 200 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 4.101721 X +5.819
Correlation coefficient (r)0.592
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.350

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 158470.435533 X +9298.474
Correlation coefficient (r)0.637
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.406

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 14.745809 X +76.337
Correlation coefficient (r)0.341
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -0.184328 X +1.679
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -3.829457 X +13.579
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004