Table 399. | Civic knowledge and civic engagement of 14-year-old students, by country: 1999 |
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | 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. 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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