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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - The government should spend less on benefits for the poor.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines61.3%
2 China52.4%
3 Argentina46.2%
4 France34.9%
5 South Africa31.1%
6 Lithuania30.0%
7 Portugal25.2%
8 New Zealand21.6%
9 Hungary21.2%
10 Bulgaria20.0%
11 Czech Republic18.9%
12 Poland18.1%
13 United States18.0%
14 United Kingdom17.4%
15 Slovakia17.1%
16 Turkiye16.1%
17 Spain15.8%
18 Austria14.3%
19 Venezuela14.2%
20 Chile13.2%
21 Slovenia12.7%
22 Croatia11.6%
23 Ukraine11.1%
24 Russian Federation11.0%
25 Israel10.5%
26 Sweden10.0%
27 Republic of Korea9.9%
27 Taiwan9.9%
29 Australia9.8%
30 Denmark8.7%
31 Belgium8.5%
32 Finland7.8%
33 Germany7.6%
34 Japan 7.4%
35 Latvia7.1%
36 Norway7.0%
37 Estonia6.2%
38 Cyprus5.9%
38 Italy5.9%
40 Switzerland5.3%
41 Iceland3.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -1.473426 X +6.696
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -85341.446761 X +49763.183
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.447
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.200

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -16.676993 X +81.040
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.413
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.925930 X +1.475
Correlation coefficient (r)0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -5.875787 X +11.496
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.145
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021