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Question: If the government had to choose between keeping down inflation or keeping down unemployment, to which do you think it should give highest priority?
Choices: "Keeping down inflation" "Keeping down unemployment"
Data: % of "Keeping down inflation"
Period:
Area:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Czech Republic64.9%
2 Germany59.2%
3 Hungary54.8%
4 Japan 50.2%
5 Slovenia49.5%
6 New Zealand47.6%
7 Poland47.1%
8 Uruguay47.0%
9 Russian Federation44.0%
10 Australia42.4%
11 Canada39.5%
12 Israel38.5%
13 Syrian Arab Republic34.9%
14 Ireland34.0%
15 Latvia30.0%
16 Italy22.4%
17 Spain21.5%
18 France18.3%

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

No data for 220 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 0.160874 X +6.518
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -31639.958315 X +52258.498
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -7.195768 X +82.143
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.201
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -0.063821 X +1.711
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 11.461346 X +5.742
Correlation coefficient (r)0.299
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089