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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to provide health care for the sick?
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 Viet Nam99.6%
2 Hungary99.5%
2 Ireland99.5%
4 Norway99.2%
5 Denmark99.1%
5 Netherlands99.1%
7 United States99.0%
8 Finland98.9%
9 Poland98.8%
10 Portugal98.6%
11 Australia98.4%
11 Russian Federation98.4%
13 Croatia98.2%
14 New Zealand98.0%
14 Slovenia98.0%
16 Chile97.9%
17 Spain97.7%
18 Dominican Republic97.6%
19 Uzbekistan97.3%
20 Canada96.2%
21 Germany96.1%
22 Czech Republic95.9%
23 Latvia95.8%
24 Israel95.7%
25 South Africa95.5%
26 Tajikistan95.4%
27 Philippines94.8%
28 Switzerland93.6%
29 France92.4%
30 Republic of Korea90.6%
31 Uruguay89.8%
32 Syrian Arab Republic88.2%
33 Japan 86.8%

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 = 4.267887 X +2.394
Correlation coefficient (r)0.216
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 140325.399881 X -98036.794
Correlation coefficient (r)0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.258150 X +79.106
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.008
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.287595 X +3.048
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -15.706897 X +25.694
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011