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Question: Generally, how would you describe taxes in the country today for those with high incomes? Taxes are...
Choices: "much too high" "too high" "about right" "too low" "much too low"
Data: % of "too low" "much too low"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Syrian Arab Republic72.7%
2 Bulgaria68.2%
3 Slovenia65.8%
4 Switzerland62.4%
5 Germany60.0%
6 Hungary56.2%
7 Cyprus53.7%
8 Spain51.2%
9 Australia51.0%
10 Italy50.8%
11 Japan 50.3%
12 Czech Republic48.9%
13 United States47.6%
14 Norway46.4%
15 France46.1%
16 Canada44.9%
17 Latvia42.6%
18 Russian Federation40.4%
19 Uruguay38.8%
20 New Zealand38.2%
21 Poland32.5%
22 Israel26.8%
23 Ireland22.7%
24 Philippines13.8%

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 = -0.567328 X +6.810
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1259.768935 X +43545.249
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.016879 X +77.340
Correlation coefficient (r)0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.894204 X +2.118
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.732070 X +10.621
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003