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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in unemployment benefits? 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 States63.9%
2 Japan51.8%
4 Germany40.3%
5 France 32.8%
6 Canada25.9%

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 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.836825 X +6.962
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.395
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.156

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 53642.217845 X +30508.832
Correlation coefficient (r)0.462
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -7.120479 X +84.178
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.445
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.198

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.163251 X +1.432
Correlation coefficient (r)0.110
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 12.712654 X +5.543
Correlation coefficient (r)0.793
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.629