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Indiana Civic Health Index 2011

September 14, 2011

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While Hoosiers performed fairly well in the social aspects of civic life such as group membership, family meals and volunteering, there are other aspects of civic life in which Hoosiers fall behind the rest of the country.

In 2010, Indiana was 17th in the number of families that eat dinner together and 21st in volunteering and group membership as a state. Unfortunately, Indiana is in the lower half of states in a number of other civic categories. Indiana ranked 43rd in doing favors for neighbors frequently and 45th in working with neighbors to fix something or improve something in the community. Perhaps most concerning is that Indiana ranked 48th in the nation in voting and 43rd in the number of citizens registered to vote. In fact, with only a few exceptions (see above charts) fewer people have voted in Indiana than nationally in every mid-term election since 1974. It may come as no surprise then that Indiana ranked 48th in the frequency of its citizens discussing politics frequently.

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