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Question: Are you in favour of or against cuts in government spending?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
35 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Croatia94.8%
2 Georgia90.3%
3 France89.1%
4 Latvia89.0%
4 Lithuania89.0%
6 Slovakia86.4%
7 Suriname85.9%
8 India84.3%
9 Thailand83.8%
10 Israel81.8%
11 Hungary81.0%
12 Venezuela77.4%
13 Japan 74.1%
14 Belgium73.9%
14 Taiwan73.9%
16 South Africa73.7%
17 Slovenia68.3%
18 Chile67.7%
19 United States64.3%
20 Philippines63.5%
21 Norway58.5%
22 Australia58.1%
22 Germany58.1%
24 Czech Republic56.4%
25 Russian Federation55.9%
26 Turkiye54.7%
27 Republic of Korea51.3%
27 Switzerland51.3%
29 Iceland50.5%
30 New Zealand47.4%
31 Spain46.9%
32 Denmark44.5%
33 Finland43.9%
34 Sweden41.4%
35 United Kingdom31.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 203 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -2.208697 X +7.906
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.468
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.219

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = -78736.802440 X +88275.044
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.503
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.253

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -15.753188 X +88.272
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.472
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.223

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.686624 X +1.274
Correlation coefficient (r)0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 5.636439 X +7.686
Correlation coefficient (r)0.168
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028