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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - It is the responsibility of the government to reduce the differences in income between people with high incomes and those with low incomes
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye92.3%
2 Portugal92.0%
3 Slovenia90.7%
4 Lithuania89.0%
5 Italy86.7%
6 Latvia85.9%
7 Hungary83.6%
8 Spain79.6%
9 Poland78.8%
10 Estonia78.4%
11 Israel78.1%
12 France77.2%
13 Slovakia75.4%
14 Republic of Korea75.1%
15 Finland 74.8%
16 Austria74.6%
17 Chile73.6%
18 Belgium73.4%
19 Iceland72.3%
20 Germany65.5%
21 Czech Republic64.2%
22 Switzerland62.9%
23 United Kingdom60.6%
24 Sweden58.0%
25 Japan54.4%
26 Denmark53.8%
27 Norway53.1%
28 Australia51.3%
29 New Zealand42.4%
30 United States32.6%

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

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.766757 X +7.941
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.458
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.210

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -93997.115578 X +112058.785
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.635
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.403

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -5.540051 X +84.571
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.115293 X +1.594
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.936896 X +11.951
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005