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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:
35 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile92.7%
2 Slovenia92.2%
3 Croatia91.3%
4 India90.2%
5 Suriname90.0%
6 Thailand89.8%
6 Turkiye89.8%
8 Spain89.3%
9 Hungary88.2%
10 Slovakia87.8%
11 Georgia86.5%
12 Russian Federation86.2%
13 Taiwan85.8%
14 Israel85.6%
15 Iceland82.6%
15 Lithuania82.6%
17 Germany80.9%
18 Belgium80.8%
19 Latvia80.5%
20 France79.5%
21 Republic of Korea79.1%
22 Finland78.7%
23 Norway78.2%
24 South Africa78.1%
25 Venezuela74.9%
26 United Kingdom70.9%
27 Switzerland69.3%
28 Sweden66.8%
29 Philippines66.2%
30 Japan 65.3%
31 Czech Republic64.8%
32 New Zealand64.4%
33 Australia59.9%
34 Denmark56.6%
35 United States55.9%

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 203 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -3.158772 X +8.922
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.425
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = -124633.055700 X +133900.549
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.505
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.255

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -13.606222 X +88.466
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -0.020609 X +1.748
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 5.475831 X +7.138
Correlation coefficient (r)0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011