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Question: Have you contacted or appeared in the media 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:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland21.5%
2 India21.3%
3 Netherlands17.7%
4 Germany17.6%
5 Norway 17.2%
6 Denmark15.4%
7 Australia14.7%
7 Austria14.7%
9 Sweden14.5%
10 Switzerland12.9%
11 United Kingdom12.5%
12 Iceland12.4%
13 Belgium12.1%
14 United States11.3%
15 Venezuela10.8%
16 Czech Republic10.5%
17 France9.5%
18 Georgia8.8%
19 Israel8.6%
19 Spain8.6%
21 Philippines8.1%
22 Slovenia7.5%
22 South Africa7.5%
24 Slovakia6.8%
25 Chile6.7%
26 Lithuania6.5%
27 Taiwan5.5%
28 Croatia4.9%
29 Republic of Korea4.7%
30 Russian Federation3.9%
31 Turkiye3.1%
32 Japan3.0%
33 Poland2.4%
34 Hungary1.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2014

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 6.773839 X +5.775
Correlation coefficient (r)0.383
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 245365.040067 X +12608.574
Correlation coefficient (r)0.522
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.272

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 20.025767 X +76.672
Correlation coefficient (r)0.225
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.260387 X +1.658
Correlation coefficient (r)0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -18.836623 X +15.382
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025