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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic96.0%
2 Chile95.6%
3 Uzbekistan92.9%
4 Israel91.8%
5 Viet Nam90.6%
6 Philippines89.8%
7 Croatia89.2%
8 Ireland87.9%
9 Spain86.8%
10 South Africa85.7%
11 Portugal85.1%
12 Russian Federation84.8%
13 Uruguay82.6%
14 Germany82.4%
15 Slovenia80.2%
16 Australia79.7%
17 Poland79.5%
18 Latvia78.8%
19 Hungary73.3%
20 United States72.6%
21 Netherlands72.3%
22 Republic of Korea71.1%
23 Syrian Arab Republic70.5%
24 New Zealand69.7%
25 Canada66.4%
26 Tajikistan65.7%
27 Czech Republic64.3%
28 Denmark62.2%
28 Norway62.2%
30 France58.7%
31 Switzerland52.9%
32 Japan 52.8%
33 Finland43.5%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -1.937386 X +7.999
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.433
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -94751.466301 X +109984.535
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.444
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.197

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -17.569957 X +91.298
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.430
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.185

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.172503 X +0.913
Correlation coefficient (r)0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -4.300429 X +13.841
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.113
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013