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Question: Who do you think should primarily cover the costs of the help to elderly people?
Choices: "The elderly people themselves or their family" "The government/public funds"
Data: % of "The elderly people themselves or their family"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 China75.6%
2 Philippines64.8%
3 Bulgaria62.2%
4 Switzerland61.0%
5 Hungary60.7%
6 India59.8%
7 Argentina59.5%
8 Croatia57.9%
9 Canada56.5%
10 United States54.1%
11 Poland52.6%
12 Mexico51.3%
13 Czech Republic51.2%
14 Venezuela49.5%
15 Ireland48.9%
16 South Africa48.5%
17 Japan 46.9%
18 Belgium46.7%
19 Chile45.4%
20 Latvia45.0%
21 Australia44.8%
21 Slovenia44.8%
23 Taiwan41.7%
24 United Kingdom37.7%
25 Lithuania37.6%
26 Slovakia37.3%
27 France36.6%
28 Germany35.9%
29 Russian Federation35.3%
30 Netherlands35.2%
31 Turkiye33.5%
32 Portugal32.0%
33 Republic of Korea30.0%
34 Austria29.1%
35 Norway28.4%
36 Finland28.2%
37 Spain27.3%
38 Denmark17.8%
39 Israel16.7%
40 Sweden13.2%
41 Iceland11.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -2.499231 X +7.545
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.499
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.249

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -70474.124543 X +67706.290
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -16.856637 X +85.220
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.461
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.020015 X +1.664
Correlation coefficient (r)0.008
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -2.938901 X +11.743
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008