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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the environment? 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 Federation81.6%
2 Poland76.8%
3 Slovenia74.8%
4 Japan 70.7%
5 Czech Republic68.7%
6 Bulgaria67.5%
6 Israel67.5%
8 Hungary65.7%
8 Spain65.7%
10 Cyprus61.8%
11 Italy60.4%
12 Philippines59.3%
13 Germany58.1%
14 Switzerland52.9%
15 Ireland52.1%
16 Latvia51.2%
17 Canada50.1%
18 Uruguay49.6%
19 France48.2%
20 Australia48.1%
21 United States44.6%
22 Norway42.9%
23 New Zealand37.2%
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 = -2.159734 X +7.821
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.519
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.269

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -140681.096222 X +125875.142
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -7.471825 X +83.096
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.187
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.729189 X +2.119
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.192
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 5.232585 X +6.770
Correlation coefficient (r)0.132
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017