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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in old age pensions? 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 Nam92.5%
2 Chile92.2%
3 Portugal91.9%
4 Poland91.8%
5 Russian Federation91.0%
6 Croatia90.7%
7 Ireland90.0%
7 Uzbekistan90.0%
9 Latvia86.9%
10 Philippines84.5%
11 Spain82.5%
12 Israel82.4%
13 South Africa78.7%
14 Republic of Korea77.5%
15 Hungary77.1%
16 Dominican Republic77.0%
17 United States74.5%
18 Finland72.0%
19 Uruguay64.4%
20 Czech Republic61.8%
21 Slovenia61.1%
22 Switzerland61.0%
23 Norway58.9%
24 Japan 56.4%
25 Syrian Arab Republic55.1%
26 Australia53.6%
27 Tajikistan53.0%
28 Denmark52.9%
29 New Zealand52.8%
30 Canada52.7%
31 Germany51.5%
32 France46.1%
33 Netherlands42.6%

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 = -1.645134 X +7.696
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.440
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -71373.848933 X +88647.832
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.400
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.160

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -13.258585 X +87.324
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.070862 X +1.757
Correlation coefficient (r)0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.866145 X +8.521
Correlation coefficient (r)0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008