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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile99.2%
1 Viet Nam99.2%
3 Ireland98.3%
4 Slovenia98.1%
4 Spain98.1%
6 Dominican Republic97.9%
7 Croatia97.4%
8 Poland97.3%
8 Portugal97.3%
10 Uzbekistan96.6%
11 Russian Federation95.6%
12 Israel94.7%
13 France94.1%
14 Hungary92.5%
14 Philippines92.5%
16 Germany92.2%
16 South Africa92.2%
18 Uruguay92.0%
19 Latvia91.3%
20 Syrian Arab Republic91.0%
21 Canada90.3%
22 Tajikistan89.9%
23 Czech Republic89.6%
24 Netherlands89.3%
25 Australia89.1%
25 United States89.1%
27 Finland85.6%
28 Denmark84.4%
29 Norway82.4%
30 Republic of Korea80.1%
31 New Zealand78.5%
32 Switzerland73.8%
33 Japan 57.9%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -1.541674 X +7.913
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.220
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -120413.422230 X +146519.274
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.360
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -25.211671 X +100.718
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.678342 X +0.288
Correlation coefficient (r)0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -10.786259 X +20.325
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032