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Question: People sometimes belong to different kinds of groups or associations. The list below contains different types of groups. For each type of group, please tick a box to say whether you have participated in the activities of this group in the past 12 months. - A sports group, hobby or leisure club
Choices: "I have participated more than twice" "I have participated once or twice" "I belong to such a group but never participate" "I do not belong to such a group"
Data: % of "I have participated more than twice" "I have participated once or twice" "I belong to such a group but never participate"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand62.5%
2 Australia55.0%
3 Finland 54.0%
4 France51.2%
5 Denmark50.4%
6 Germany49.7%
7 Norway49.5%
8 Canada46.3%
9 Switzerland45.5%
10 United Kingdom42.9%
11 United States39.0%
12 Japan37.2%
13 Austria32.7%
14 Slovenia27.8%
15 Czech Republic26.6%
16 Italy26.2%
17 Israel25.7%
18 South Africa24.8%
19 Philippines19.2%
20 Latvia18.0%
21 Spain16.6%
22 Chile13.9%
23 Cyprus12.3%
24 Brazil9.4%
25 Poland7.5%
26 Russian Federation7.2%
27 Hungary6.9%

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

No data for 211 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 2.840912 X +5.766
Correlation coefficient (r)0.739
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.546

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 107349.386911 X +5906.936
Correlation coefficient (r)0.768
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.590

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 14.360677 X +74.781
Correlation coefficient (r)0.536
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.287

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.188737 X +1.692
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.641909 X +12.300
Correlation coefficient (r)0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000