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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in culture and the arts? 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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany29.0%
3 United States21.6%
4 Japan21.4%
6 France15.4%
8 United Kingdom12.9%

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 2016

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.366724 X +6.646
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 48690.536824 X +42885.678
Correlation coefficient (r)0.172
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -11.252165 X +83.537
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.445197 X +1.840
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 11.746842 X +7.954
Correlation coefficient (r)0.240
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058