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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in culture and the arts? Remember that if you say "much more", it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Choices: "Spend much more" "Spend more" "Spend the same as now" "Spend less" "Spend much less"
Data: % of "Spend much more" "Spend more"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation66.5%
2 Latvia57.5%
3 Philippines57.1%
4 Bulgaria57.0%
5 Poland52.3%
6 Israel51.1%
7 Slovenia50.2%
8 Hungary49.0%
9 Spain46.7%
10 Cyprus44.3%
11 Italy44.0%
12 Japan 35.9%
13 Czech Republic28.4%
14 Canada23.2%
15 Ireland22.7%
16 France18.5%
16 Syrian Arab Republic18.5%
18 Germany18.2%
19 Uruguay15.8%
20 Switzerland14.7%
21 New Zealand13.4%
22 Australia12.6%
23 Norway8.2%
24 United States6.5%

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 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1.766826 X +7.158
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.685
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.469

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -109388.255803 X +80718.260
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.719
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.517

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -12.466265 X +82.982
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.096170 X +1.664
Correlation coefficient (r)0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.819942 X +10.082
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001