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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:
35 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines71.1%
2 India68.6%
3 Georgia62.0%
4 Turkiye61.5%
5 Suriname59.1%
6 Thailand56.0%
7 Venezuela53.1%
8 Chile47.1%
9 Croatia47.0%
10 South Africa46.7%
11 Taiwan44.6%
12 Spain41.4%
13 Latvia41.1%
14 Israel40.0%
15 Slovakia34.7%
16 Lithuania33.3%
17 Slovenia32.7%
18 Hungary32.3%
19 Germany29.0%
20 Republic of Korea27.0%
21 Russian Federation26.7%
22 Belgium23.1%
23 United States21.6%
24 Japan 21.4%
25 Iceland20.6%
26 Switzerland18.7%
27 Czech Republic18.6%
28 Australia16.2%
29 France15.4%
30 Sweden14.9%
31 New Zealand13.8%
32 Norway12.9%
32 United Kingdom12.9%
34 Denmark12.8%
35 Finland11.1%

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 203 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -3.566585 X +7.625
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.781
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.610

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = -115344.752794 X +74752.889
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.771
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.594

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -21.885006 X +85.125
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.685
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.469

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 1.099546 X +1.362
Correlation coefficient (r)0.466
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.217

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -3.949627 X +12.776
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015