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Question: Are there people you could ask to help influence important decisions in your favour?
Choices: "No, nobody" "Yes, a few people" "Yes, some people" "Yes, a lot of people"
Data: % of "Yes, a few people" "Yes, some people" "Yes, a lot of people"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia95.4%
2 Switzerland92.1%
3 Germany90.9%
4 Czech Republic88.7%
5 Israel87.0%
6 United Kingdom86.4%
7 Chile85.4%
8 Australia84.7%
9 Finland84.6%
10 Ireland84.2%
11 Canada84.0%
12 France83.1%
13 Norway81.5%
14 Netherlands81.4%
15 Japan 81.3%
16 New Zealand80.6%
17 Hungary79.6%
18 Republic of Korea79.4%
19 United States79.2%
20 Denmark78.5%
21 Portugal76.8%
22 Sweden75.4%
23 Spain70.4%
24 Poland58.3%
25 Slovenia55.0%

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

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.670529 X +5.493
Correlation coefficient (r)0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 74898.908200 X -12356.240
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.477214 X +78.991
Correlation coefficient (r)0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.745138 X +0.960
Correlation coefficient (r)0.201
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -5.342173 X +17.573
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011