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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in old age pensions? 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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia91.4%
2 Chile90.0%
3 Israel84.6%
4 Slovakia82.6%
5 Lithuania82.1%
6 Turkiye81.6%
7 Spain78.7%
8 Slovenia78.4%
9 Hungary75.3%
10 Iceland72.5%
11 Sweden71.3%
12 Czech Republic70.5%
13 Germany69.1%
14 Belgium62.6%
15 United States 61.8%
16 United Kingdom59.0%
17 Switzerland57.0%
18 Australia56.9%
19 Republic of Korea55.1%
20 Finland53.3%
21 France51.0%
22 Japan46.0%
23 New Zealand44.9%
24 Norway43.6%
25 Denmark41.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.491283 X +7.728
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -86357.132410 X +104727.247
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.563
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.317

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -10.384315 X +87.629
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.595439 X +1.149
Correlation coefficient (r)0.255
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.044242 X +12.320
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005