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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Canada34.6%
3 United States29.6%
4 United Kingdom29.5%
5 France14.8%
7 Japan8.9%
8 Germany6.4%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.540652 X +6.309
Correlation coefficient (r)0.635
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.403

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 68607.847624 X +38646.081
Correlation coefficient (r)0.523
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.274

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -7.724976 X +82.877
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.423
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.179

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.201042 X +1.472
Correlation coefficient (r)0.120
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 2.458492 X +9.808
Correlation coefficient (r)0.108
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012