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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Viet Nam72.5%
2 Dominican Republic63.5%
3 Russian Federation60.0%
4 Philippines56.2%
5 Croatia55.5%
6 Poland49.5%
7 Hungary48.6%
8 Portugal48.3%
9 Spain47.5%
10 Israel47.3%
11 Uzbekistan45.2%
12 Tajikistan43.3%
13 Latvia42.1%
14 Chile39.1%
15 Republic of Korea38.8%
16 South Africa37.3%
17 Slovenia37.1%
18 Ireland34.0%
19 Uruguay24.2%
20 Syrian Arab Republic22.6%
21 Japan 21.2%
22 Czech Republic19.1%
23 Canada18.9%
24 Germany17.8%
25 France17.0%
26 Australia14.5%
27 Switzerland13.1%
28 Norway11.8%
29 Denmark11.6%
30 New Zealand11.4%
31 United States11.2%
32 Finland10.9%
33 Netherlands9.6%

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 205 countries.
Source
ISSP 2006

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -2.336848 X +7.305
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.707
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.500
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -109147.931699 X +74298.933
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.692
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.479
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -15.936510 X +83.209
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.529
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.280
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.772770 X +1.550
Correlation coefficient (r)0.246
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -2.555868 X +11.412
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008