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Question: Are you in favour of or against government support for declining industries to protect 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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Viet Nam94.0%
2 Portugal89.7%
3 Dominican Republic86.0%
4 Uzbekistan84.2%
5 Chile84.1%
6 Israel81.9%
7 Spain81.6%
8 South Africa80.8%
9 Ireland76.1%
10 Croatia72.5%
11 Hungary72.2%
12 Poland72.0%
13 Republic of Korea70.4%
14 Slovenia69.7%
15 Philippines68.0%
15 Uruguay68.0%
17 France66.4%
18 United States61.7%
19 Germany59.0%
20 Japan 57.0%
21 Syrian Arab Republic56.8%
22 Norway55.7%
23 Finland55.4%
24 Latvia54.7%
25 Tajikistan53.4%
26 Australia51.3%
27 Switzerland51.0%
28 Russian Federation48.6%
29 Denmark48.1%
30 Netherlands43.3%
31 New Zealand42.4%
32 Canada42.0%
33 Czech Republic38.3%

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 = -1.721484 X +7.636
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.438
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.192

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -75236.019727 X +86417.970
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -8.923405 X +83.671
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.249
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.659089 X +1.381
Correlation coefficient (r)0.176
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -4.330702 X +13.363
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017