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Question: How successful do you think the government is nowadays in reducing the differences in income between people with high incomes and people with low incomes?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines40.1%
2 South Africa27.0%
3 Chile25.2%
4 Taiwan16.6%
5 New Zealand16.5%
6 Suriname15.9%
7 Czech Republic15.5%
8 Venezuela13.6%
9 Norway10.8%
10 Austria10.2%
11 Finland10.1%
12 Italy8.3%
13 Thailand7.7%
14 Russian Federation6.8%
15 Iceland6.7%
16 Denmark6.5%
17 Switzerland5.6%
18 Slovenia5.4%
19 Australia5.3%
20 United Kingdom5.0%
21 Sweden4.9%
22 Germany4.4%
23 Croatia4.1%
24 Israel3.5%
25 Japan 3.4%
25 United States3.4%
27 France2.9%
28 Lithuania2.8%
29 Bulgaria1.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -2.030096 X +6.826
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.273
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -130621.590123 X +52767.849
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.413
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -33.337840 X +81.587
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 2.354957 X +1.513
Correlation coefficient (r)0.486
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.236

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -2.058072 X +11.273
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001