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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in health? 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 Federation96.1%
2 Bulgaria95.1%
3 Poland93.9%
4 Hungary93.3%
5 Latvia92.7%
6 United States91.5%
7 New Zealand87.6%
8 Norway85.2%
9 Israel84.6%
10 Philippines83.7%
11 Ireland83.6%
12 Czech Republic82.8%
13 Slovenia80.7%
14 Australia79.9%
15 Spain79.6%
16 Cyprus78.9%
17 Italy76.9%
18 Switzerland76.6%
19 Japan 69.0%
20 Uruguay67.6%
21 Germany59.4%
22 Canada55.6%
23 France48.9%
24 Syrian Arab Republic36.3%

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 = -1.056497 X +7.395
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -31902.175959 X +68531.170
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -7.926493 X +84.970
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.245
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.669583 X +2.221
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 9.122254 X +2.660
Correlation coefficient (r)0.285
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081