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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the environment? 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:
3 Japan58.2%
4 United States56.8%
5 France 54.1%
6 Canada51.8%
7 Germany37.6%

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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.648878 X +7.455
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.425
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 3067.255534 X +51957.029
Correlation coefficient (r)0.014
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 3.034746 X +79.551
Correlation coefficient (r)0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.201583 X +1.398
Correlation coefficient (r)0.074
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 22.411670 X -0.585
Correlation coefficient (r)0.763
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.582