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Question: Have you boycotted, or deliberately bought, certain products for political, ethical or environmental reasons, 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 Austria57.0%
2 Australia55.2%
3 Switzerland55.1%
4 Sweden54.4%
5 Canada54.0%
5 Denmark54.0%
7 New Zealand50.7%
8 France49.3%
9 Finland 45.7%
10 Netherlands42.9%
11 Germany40.8%
12 United Kingdom40.1%
13 United States38.8%
14 Norway38.5%
15 Ireland30.1%
16 Republic of Korea29.5%
17 Belgium22.5%
18 Spain22.3%
19 Portugal20.6%
20 Taiwan20.3%
21 Israel19.9%
21 Japan19.9%
23 Venezuela19.8%
24 Uruguay18.3%
25 Czech Republic14.4%
26 Slovakia14.1%
27 Slovenia13.9%
28 Mexico12.4%
29 Cyprus11.1%
29 South Africa11.1%
31 Brazil9.6%
32 Latvia9.4%
33 Russian Federation6.6%
34 Philippines6.5%
35 Chile5.1%
35 Hungary5.1%
35 Poland5.1%
38 Bulgaria3.2%

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 = 2.947094 X +5.782
Correlation coefficient (r)0.754
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.569

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 107650.234871 X +9538.135
Correlation coefficient (r)0.767
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.588

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 14.672064 X +75.115
Correlation coefficient (r)0.609
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.371

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -0.447864 X +1.766
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.220
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 1.354656 X +12.491
Correlation coefficient (r)0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002