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Table 390. Civic knowledge and civic engagement of 14-year-old students, by country: 1999
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                                 |          |    Percentage of|   Percentage of students who believe that it is important or
                                 |          | students who say|              very important that a good citizen:
                                 |          |    that they are|________________________________________________________________
                                 |          |   very likely or|         |         |            |  Participates in|Takes part in
                                 |    Civics|   likely to vote|    Votes|  Joins a|  Engages in|    activities to|activities to
                                 |     scale|      in national| in every|political|   political|   benefit people|  protect the
Country                          |     score|        elections| election|    party| discussions| in 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)\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)
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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)
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\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: The international mean for these scales was set at 100 with a standard deviation of 20. 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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