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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to provide industry with the help it needs to grow?
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 Spain95.8%
2 Latvia95.7%
3 Bulgaria94.3%
4 Ireland94.0%
5 United States93.2%
6 Slovenia92.8%
7 Russian Federation92.3%
8 Poland91.2%
9 Israel90.1%
10 Hungary89.1%
11 Cyprus88.5%
12 Australia86.5%
13 Philippines85.4%
14 New Zealand84.7%
15 Czech Republic82.4%
16 France82.3%
17 Italy80.4%
18 Norway79.9%
19 Switzerland79.8%
20 Japan 75.3%
21 Canada74.5%
22 Germany67.1%
23 Uruguay65.7%
24 Syrian Arab Republic52.4%

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 = -1.473404 X +7.805
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.261
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -33222.573962 X +71290.899
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.947006 X +80.396
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.946377 X +2.490
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 7.204074 X +3.761
Correlation coefficient (r)0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025