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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to reduce income differences between the rich and the poor?
Choices: "Definately should be" "Probably should be" "Probably should not be" "Definately should not be"
Data: % of "Definately should be" "Probably should be"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal93.7%
2 Chile91.0%
3 Slovenia90.8%
4 Tajikistan88.9%
5 Poland87.7%
6 Spain86.3%
7 Russian Federation86.2%
8 Hungary85.6%
8 Israel85.6%
10 Croatia84.6%
11 Uzbekistan83.8%
12 Latvia83.3%
13 South Africa82.9%
14 Republic of Korea80.6%
15 Ireland79.5%
16 Finland77.8%
17 France77.7%
18 Viet Nam74.5%
19 Norway74.1%
20 Dominican Republic73.5%
21 Philippines73.2%
22 Germany72.2%
23 Netherlands71.9%
24 Syrian Arab Republic69.3%
24 United States69.3%
26 Canada67.8%
27 Switzerland67.7%
28 Japan 66.0%
29 Australia60.6%
30 Denmark55.3%
31 Czech Republic54.6%
32 Uruguay52.3%
33 New Zealand50.2%

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 = -2.358984 X +8.308
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.461
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -85706.390550 X +102588.176
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.351
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.123

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -10.305547 X +85.696
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.221
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.489761 X +1.437
Correlation coefficient (r)0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.280793 X +10.347
Correlation coefficient (r)0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000