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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in education? Remember that if you say "much more", it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Choices: "Spend much more" "Spend more" "Spend the same as now" "Spend less" "Spend much less"
Data: % of "Spend much more" "Spend more"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States84.5%
2 Italy70.9%
4 Canada66.3%
5 France 63.9%
6 Germany54.0%
7 Japan50.7%

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

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.024346 X +5.890
Correlation coefficient (r)0.405
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.164

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 101990.611150 X -15338.226
Correlation coefficient (r)0.736
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.542

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -13.403324 X +90.136
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.715
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.511

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.689435 X +1.010
Correlation coefficient (r)0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 5.696530 X +6.184
Correlation coefficient (r)0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040