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Question: Have you belonged to a trade union, business, or professional association?
Choices: "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate" "Used to belong" "Never belonged"
Data: % of "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate"
Period:
Area:
37 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark69.1%
2 Sweden64.2%
3 Finland 55.9%
4 Norway52.7%
5 Canada39.2%
6 Belgium37.4%
7 Austria37.1%
8 Netherlands30.5%
9 Ireland28.7%
10 Cyprus27.7%
10 New Zealand27.7%
12 Australia27.5%
13 Taiwan26.6%
14 Switzerland26.2%
15 Slovenia25.5%
16 Israel22.0%
17 Russian Federation21.4%
18 United States21.1%
19 France20.4%
20 United Kingdom20.3%
21 Germany17.8%
22 Japan14.1%
22 Mexico14.1%
24 Spain14.0%
25 Latvia13.9%
26 Brazil13.1%
27 Uruguay12.8%
28 Slovakia12.7%
29 Portugal12.2%
30 Bulgaria11.8%
31 Czech Republic11.2%
32 Venezuela10.7%
33 Hungary10.5%
34 Poland7.6%
35 Chile6.9%
35 Republic of Korea6.9%
37 Philippines5.4%

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 201 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 3.018272 X +5.901
Correlation coefficient (r)0.709
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.503

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 102780.801672 X +15137.977
Correlation coefficient (r)0.650
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.423

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 10.646195 X +77.002
Correlation coefficient (r)0.466
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.217

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -0.268434 X +1.688
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 2.508894 X +11.971
Correlation coefficient (r)0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005