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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to give financial help to university students from low-income families?
Choices: "Definately should be" "Probably should be" "Probably should not be" "Definately should not be"
Data: % of "Definately should be" "Probably should be"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain98.5%
2 Slovenia97.0%
3 Latvia96.8%
4 Russian Federation95.8%
5 Poland95.5%
6 Ireland95.1%
7 Italy94.2%
8 France94.1%
9 Cyprus93.2%
10 Czech Republic92.7%
11 Philippines91.8%
12 Hungary91.4%
13 Israel90.2%
14 Bulgaria90.1%
15 United States90.0%
16 Germany89.4%
17 Australia88.0%
18 New Zealand86.8%
19 Syrian Arab Republic86.5%
20 Canada85.3%
20 Uruguay85.3%
22 Norway79.3%
23 Switzerland79.2%
24 Japan 64.0%

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

No data for 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1.092831 X +7.529
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.170
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -122043.816065 X +152470.184
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.322
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -21.442594 X +97.973
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.289363 X +1.437
Correlation coefficient (r)0.046
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -3.826505 X +13.232
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003