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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - Private enterprise is the best way to solve the country's economic problems.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy65.3%
2 Germany65.2%
3 Czech Republic63.2%
4 Israel62.6%
5 Ireland58.0%
6 Spain57.3%
7 Slovenia55.7%
8 Canada54.7%
9 Australia53.5%
10 New Zealand53.2%
11 Uruguay53.0%
12 Philippines52.8%
13 Bulgaria51.5%
14 Norway45.4%
15 Poland44.6%
16 Netherlands41.7%
17 United States41.5%
18 Russian Federation32.2%
19 Hungary29.6%
20 Japan 11.9%

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

No data for 218 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.476621 X +5.865
Correlation coefficient (r)0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 26020.582226 X +29892.632
Correlation coefficient (r)0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 6.709197 X +75.619
Correlation coefficient (r)0.183
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.910769 X +1.215
Correlation coefficient (r)0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -16.219447 X +18.239
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.467
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.218