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Table 397. Distributions of civic knowledge and civic engagement of 14-year-old students: Selected countries, 1999

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                               |           |Percentage of    |       Percentage of students who believe that it is very important or important
                               |    Mean   |students who     |                                 that a good citizen...
                               |   scale   |say that they    |_________________________________________________________________________________
  Country                      |   score   |are very likely  |              |                |  Engages in  | Participates in  |Takes part in
                               |           |or likely to     |Votes in every|   Joins a      |  political   |  activities to   |activities to
                               |           |vote in national |   election   |political party | discussions  |benefit people in | protect the
                               |           |elections        |              |                |              |  the community   |  environment
_______________________________|___________|_________________|______________|________________|______________|__________________|_______________
               1               |    2      |       3         |       4      |       5        |       6      |       7          |       8
_______________________________|___________|_________________|______________|________________|______________|__________________|_______________
 OECD countries                |           |                 |              |                |              |                  |
Australia......................|  102 (0.8)|      85    (1.0)|      89 (0.8)|      17   (1.0)|      34 (1.1)|      80     (1.0)|      74  (1.1)
Belgium (French portion)\1\....|   95 (0.9)|      69    (2.0)|      82 (1.4)|      24   (1.0)|      39 (1.4)|      54     (2.0)|      71  (1.7)
Czech Republic.................|  103 (0.8)|      65    (1.7)|      66 (1.1)|      18   (1.0)|      29 (1.4)|      78     (0.9)|      84  (1.0)
Denmark\1\.....................|  100 (0.5)|      91    (0.7)|      60 (1.0)|      17   (0.8)|      44 (0.9)|      86     (0.8)|      83  (0.7)
England........................|   99 (0.6)|      80    (1.0)|      76 (1.1)|      20   (0.9)|      42 (1.3)|      78     (1.0)|      76  (1.1)
                               |           |                 |              |                |              |                  |
Finland........................|  109 (0.7)|      87    (0.7)|      59 (1.2)|      13   (0.8)|      23 (1.1)|      60     (1.0)|      74  (1.0)
Germany\2\.....................|  100 (0.5)|      67    (1.1)|      69 (0.9)|      18   (0.7)|      43 (1.2)|      85     (0.9)|      72  (1.2)
Greece.........................|  108 (0.8)|      86    (0.9)|      94 (0.6)|      49   (1.0)|      59 (1.0)|      90     (0.7)|      89  (0.7)
Hungary........................|  102 (0.6)|      91    (0.7)|      81 (0.9)|      29   (0.9)|      21 (0.8)|      89     (0.6)|      77  (1.0)
Italy..........................|  105 (0.8)|      80    (1.1)|      84 (0.7)|      32   (1.0)|      49 (1.0)|      82     (0.7)|      79  (0.8)
                               |           |                 |              |                |              |                  |
Norway\1\......................|  103 (0.5)|      87    (0.7)|      71 (0.9)|      21   (0.8)|      37 (1.0)|      83     (0.8)|      91  (0.6)
Poland.........................|  111 (1.7)|      88    (1.2)|      91 (0.8)|      35   (1.2)|      53 (1.4)|      90     (0.8)|      77  (0.8)
Portugal.......................|   96 (0.7)|      88    (0.8)|      71 (0.9)|      36   (1.1)|      40 (1.0)|      94     (0.6)|      92  (0.6)
Slovak Republic................|  105 (0.7)|      93    (0.6)|      91 (0.7)|      23   (1.3)|      51 (1.0)|      87     (0.8)|      87  (0.8)
Sweden.........................|   99 (0.8)|      75    (1.4)|      78 (1.0)|      21   (0.9)|      37 (1.5)|      83     (1.2)|      81  (1.3)
                               |           |                 |              |                |              |                  |
Switzerland....................|   98 (0.8)|      55    (1.3)|      68 (1.2)|      23   (1.1)|      42 (1.2)|      76     (0.9)|      70  (1.2)
United States..................|  106 (1.2)|      85    (1.0)|      83 (0.9)|      48   (1.4)|      58 (1.1)|      88     (0.8)|      83  (0.8)
                               |           |                 |              |                |              |                  |
 Non-OECD countries            |           |                 |              |                |              |                  |
Chile..........................|   88 (0.7)|      74    (1.0)|      91 (0.6)|      46   (1.0)|      34 (1.1)|      88     (0.7)|      90  (0.5)
Russian Federation\3\..........|  100 (1.3)|      82    (1.0)|      80 (1.2)|      22   (1.4)|      28 (1.4)|      83     (1.1)|      81  (1.3)
Slovenia.......................|  101 (0.5)|      84    (1.0)|      80 (0.8)|      30   (0.9)|      38 (1.0)|      78     (0.8)|      73  (1.0)
_______________________________|___________|_________________|______________|________________|______________|__________________|_______________

\1\Overall participation rate less than 85 percent.
\2\National Desired Population does not cover all International Desired Population.
\3\Did not meet age/grade specification.

NOTE: Standard errors appear in parentheses.

SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), IEA Civic Education Study, 2001. (This table was prepared August 2002).


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