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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - The government should provide a decent standard of living for the unemployed.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye93.0%
2 Estonia90.5%
3 Ukraine87.7%
4 China87.3%
5 Denmark84.4%
6 Latvia83.8%
7 Portugal83.5%
7 Russian Federation83.5%
9 Bulgaria82.7%
10 Philippines81.2%
11 Slovenia81.1%
12 Republic of Korea81.0%
12 Spain81.0%
14 Cyprus80.6%
15 Finland80.5%
16 South Africa80.3%
17 Lithuania79.1%
18 Chile78.7%
19 Croatia78.0%
20 Iceland77.8%
20 Sweden77.8%
22 Norway77.2%
23 Hungary76.6%
24 Taiwan75.6%
25 Argentina75.3%
26 Switzerland72.6%
27 Italy70.5%
28 Japan 69.7%
29 Poland67.2%
30 Israel64.9%
31 France62.4%
31 Germany62.4%
33 Austria61.8%
34 Czech Republic57.6%
35 Slovakia57.5%
36 Venezuela56.1%
37 United Kingdom53.0%
38 Australia52.3%
39 United States48.6%
40 New Zealand44.9%
41 Belgium42.1%

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

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -1.851002 X +7.797
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -62356.503967 X +80875.640
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.330
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.109

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -9.789086 X +85.342
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.246
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.500663 X +1.995
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 3.545461 X +7.930
Correlation coefficient (r)0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008