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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to provide a decent standard of living for the old?
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 Ireland99.7%
1 Viet Nam99.7%
3 Spain99.5%
4 Hungary99.0%
5 Poland98.8%
5 Russian Federation98.8%
7 Portugal98.7%
8 Norway98.6%
9 Chile98.5%
10 Uzbekistan98.0%
11 Latvia97.7%
12 Denmark97.5%
13 United States97.4%
14 Croatia97.3%
15 Switzerland97.0%
16 Finland96.9%
17 Netherlands96.6%
18 Slovenia96.4%
19 Dominican Republic95.9%
20 Israel95.4%
21 New Zealand95.3%
22 Australia94.9%
23 Czech Republic94.7%
24 Canada94.6%
25 Germany94.3%
26 South Africa93.9%
27 Tajikistan93.6%
28 France93.5%
29 Philippines90.7%
30 Republic of Korea90.0%
30 Uruguay90.0%
32 Syrian Arab Republic89.7%
33 Japan 88.5%

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 = 2.985392 X +3.652
Correlation coefficient (r)0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 167842.358508 X -123570.881
Correlation coefficient (r)0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 7.596176 X +70.617
Correlation coefficient (r)0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -3.080573 X +4.758
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -14.900735 X +24.833
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008