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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in fighting unemployment?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
4 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Uruguay36.9%
2 Venezuela26.5%
3 Chile 13.5%
4 Dominican Republic12.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 29 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 1.439001 X +5.778
Correlation coefficient (r)0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 16392.737700 X +8654.179
Correlation coefficient (r)0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -5.985405 X +75.717
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -1.259890 X +2.160
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.346
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 40.203299 X -0.496
Correlation coefficient (r)0.636
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.404