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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the police and law enforcement? 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 Uzbekistan84.7%
2 Ireland81.3%
3 Spain79.2%
4 Viet Nam76.2%
5 Norway71.0%
6 Switzerland68.1%
7 Australia67.3%
8 New Zealand65.7%
9 South Africa65.1%
10 Poland65.0%
11 Denmark64.1%
12 Republic of Korea63.7%
13 United States62.9%
14 Israel62.8%
14 Portugal62.8%
16 Tajikistan60.5%
17 Dominican Republic60.4%
18 Chile57.5%
19 Uruguay55.8%
20 Canada53.9%
21 Finland53.5%
22 Netherlands52.1%
23 Philippines49.6%
24 Hungary47.1%
25 Germany44.5%
26 Latvia44.0%
27 Russian Federation41.8%
28 Croatia40.2%
29 Slovenia38.5%
30 Czech Republic35.4%
31 France34.1%
32 Syrian Arab Republic32.2%
33 Japan 27.6%

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 = 0.436718 X +6.267
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 46465.975666 X +10860.651
Correlation coefficient (r)0.227
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.863647 X +76.839
Correlation coefficient (r)0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.358245 X +1.605
Correlation coefficient (r)0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -3.765528 X +12.692
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.108
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012