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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark69.1%
2 Sweden64.2%
3 Finland55.9%
4 Norway52.7%
5 Canada39.2%
6 Belgium37.4%
7 Austria37.1%
8 Netherlands30.5%
9 Ireland28.7%
10 New Zealand27.7%
11 Australia27.5%
12 Switzerland26.2%
13 Slovenia25.5%
14 Israel22.0%
15 United States21.1%
16 France20.4%
17 United Kingdom20.3%
18 Germany17.8%
19 Japan 14.1%
19 Mexico14.1%
21 Spain14.0%
22 Latvia13.9%
23 Slovakia12.7%
24 Portugal12.2%
25 Czech Republic11.2%
26 Hungary10.5%
27 Poland7.6%
28 Chile6.9%
28 Republic of Korea6.9%

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 9 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 2.564371 X +6.154
Correlation coefficient (r)0.778
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.605

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 84974.692079 X +24420.971
Correlation coefficient (r)0.613
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.376

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 6.262921 X +79.038
Correlation coefficient (r)0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.086928 X +1.554
Correlation coefficient (r)0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.867670 X +13.379
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001