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Question: Are you in favour of or against government support for industry to develop new products and technology?
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 Australia95.5%
2 Latvia95.3%
3 Ireland93.5%
4 New Zealand90.1%
5 Slovenia89.5%
6 United States88.2%
7 Bulgaria87.8%
8 Hungary87.7%
9 Israel87.5%
9 Spain87.5%
11 Norway84.6%
12 Poland84.3%
13 Russian Federation83.7%
14 Japan 83.5%
15 Czech Republic82.8%
16 Canada82.1%
17 Cyprus80.3%
17 Germany80.3%
19 France79.2%
20 Philippines79.0%
21 Uruguay77.6%
22 Italy77.4%
23 Syrian Arab Republic76.1%
24 Switzerland66.2%

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 = 0.130046 X +6.439
Correlation coefficient (r)0.018
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 3109.652756 X +40337.252
Correlation coefficient (r)0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.455380 X +79.146
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.446456 X +2.072
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 18.160431 X -5.479
Correlation coefficient (r)0.248
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062