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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:
35 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain96.0%
2 Georgia95.8%
3 Latvia95.0%
4 Croatia94.5%
5 Philippines90.3%
6 Venezuela89.8%
7 Taiwan89.6%
8 Thailand88.9%
9 Hungary88.8%
9 Suriname88.8%
11 Norway87.9%
12 South Africa87.0%
13 New Zealand86.5%
14 Australia86.4%
15 United Kingdom85.9%
16 Belgium85.5%
17 Republic of Korea85.2%
18 India85.1%
18 Israel85.1%
20 United States84.6%
21 Chile82.5%
22 Slovenia82.4%
23 France81.6%
24 Slovakia80.0%
25 Iceland79.0%
26 Switzerland78.2%
27 Denmark77.4%
28 Lithuania77.1%
29 Finland75.9%
30 Russian Federation71.8%
31 Turkiye71.2%
32 Czech Republic69.8%
32 Germany69.8%
34 Sweden67.4%
35 Japan 67.3%

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 = -2.389751 X +8.422
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = -77064.237753 X +99600.203
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -19.224649 X +93.695
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.271
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.982286 X +0.917
Correlation coefficient (r)0.187
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -4.052836 X +14.807
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003