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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in education? 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 Federation90.5%
2 Latvia88.9%
3 Israel87.2%
4 Slovenia84.8%
5 Poland84.7%
6 Philippines84.6%
7 United States84.5%
8 Cyprus83.4%
9 Bulgaria83.2%
10 New Zealand82.8%
11 Hungary81.8%
12 Uruguay77.4%
13 Spain74.3%
14 Italy70.9%
15 Australia70.4%
16 Czech Republic67.7%
17 Canada66.3%
18 France63.9%
19 Ireland63.2%
20 Switzerland58.7%
21 Germany54.0%
22 Syrian Arab Republic51.9%
23 Norway51.0%
24 Japan 50.7%

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 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1.433600 X +7.611
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.369
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.136

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -129579.447381 X +139017.217
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.565
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.319

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -17.898547 X +91.864
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.169130 X +1.572
Correlation coefficient (r)0.047
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 9.003153 X +3.214
Correlation coefficient (r)0.241
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058