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Question: Are you in favour of or against government financing of projects to create new jobs?
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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia95.7%
2 Spain95.2%
3 Hungary93.0%
4 Poland92.7%
5 Bulgaria92.6%
6 Ireland91.5%
7 Italy90.4%
8 Slovenia87.3%
9 Israel87.0%
10 Philippines85.9%
11 Norway85.7%
12 United States85.3%
13 Russian Federation85.2%
14 Australia84.2%
15 Germany81.4%
16 Syrian Arab Republic77.0%
17 France76.3%
18 Cyprus74.5%
19 Czech Republic74.0%
20 Uruguay73.8%
21 Japan 71.4%
22 Canada70.6%
23 Switzerland69.3%
24 New Zealand54.3%

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 = -1.552816 X +7.830
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.329
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -45372.283710 X +80393.232
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -14.994288 X +91.097
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.030227 X +1.721
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.985397 X +11.437
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002