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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland95.7%
2 Viet Nam95.5%
3 Tajikistan94.6%
4 Australia93.1%
5 Uzbekistan93.0%
6 New Zealand92.6%
7 Croatia91.4%
8 Latvia91.2%
8 Poland91.2%
10 Republic of Korea90.9%
11 Slovenia90.5%
12 Norway89.8%
13 Russian Federation88.1%
14 Spain87.8%
15 Portugal87.3%
16 Dominican Republic86.4%
17 Uruguay86.2%
18 Hungary86.1%
19 United States85.4%
20 Israel84.1%
21 South Africa82.9%
22 France82.7%
23 Canada81.9%
24 Germany80.7%
25 Japan 80.6%
26 Netherlands77.6%
27 Denmark77.2%
28 Chile74.8%
29 Philippines70.9%
30 Switzerland69.6%
31 Syrian Arab Republic68.8%
32 Czech Republic66.2%
33 Finland65.3%

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 = -2.704351 X +8.809
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.372
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -41836.039927 X +72973.205
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -3.491137 X +80.835
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.055
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.236093 X +2.006
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 11.186804 X +1.135
Correlation coefficient (r)0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036