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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea73.4%
2 Spain72.3%
3 Dominican Republic69.4%
4 Croatia68.9%
5 Ireland68.8%
6 Russian Federation68.6%
7 Portugal67.8%
8 Slovenia66.9%
9 Philippines66.2%
9 Tajikistan66.2%
11 Hungary66.0%
12 Viet Nam64.4%
13 Poland64.0%
14 Israel60.4%
15 Australia58.7%
16 Japan 58.2%
17 Syrian Arab Republic58.1%
18 United States56.8%
19 Denmark56.7%
20 Latvia55.9%
21 France54.1%
22 Uruguay53.9%
23 Uzbekistan52.4%
24 Canada51.8%
25 Czech Republic48.5%
26 Chile44.4%
27 Finland44.3%
28 South Africa42.2%
29 Switzerland42.1%
30 Norway40.7%
31 New Zealand38.3%
32 Germany37.6%
32 Netherlands37.6%

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 = -2.655740 X +8.026
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.489
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.239

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -90112.018386 X +88707.123
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.348
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.121

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -7.392579 X +82.096
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.100351 X +1.751
Correlation coefficient (r)0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -3.580304 X +12.595
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006