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Table 399. 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 very important
                                |  Civics  | students who    |               or important 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 | Joins a | political  |  activities to   |activities to
                                |          |vote in national |  every  |political|discussions |benefit people in | protect the
                                |          |   elections     |election |  party  |            |  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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