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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:
29 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 Finland45.7%
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 Israel19.9%
20 Japan 19.9%
22 Czech Republic14.4%
23 Slovakia14.1%
24 Slovenia13.9%
25 Mexico12.4%
26 Latvia9.4%
27 Chile5.1%
27 Hungary5.1%
27 Poland5.1%

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 = 2.342685 X +6.071
Correlation coefficient (r)0.753
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.567

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 92692.630543 X +16889.492
Correlation coefficient (r)0.708
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.501

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 8.712541 X +77.885
Correlation coefficient (r)0.590
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.348

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.196916 X +1.639
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.100672 X +13.187
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000