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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in unemployment benefits? 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:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Georgia95.0%
2 South Africa73.2%
3 Turkiye71.7%
4 Chile70.8%
5 India69.9%
6 Suriname68.1%
7 Spain67.6%
8 Venezuela63.6%
9 Thailand58.5%
10 Croatia58.0%
11 Taiwan52.7%
12 Russian Federation49.7%
13 Latvia46.0%
14 Hungary45.6%
15 Slovenia45.1%
16 Republic of Korea44.1%
17 Lithuania41.2%
18 Israel40.5%
19 Slovakia37.6%
20 Germany34.4%
21 United States31.1%
22 Switzerland26.5%
23 Denmark25.8%
24 Iceland24.1%
24 Sweden24.1%
26 Czech Republic22.3%
26 Finland22.3%
28 Japan 21.6%
29 United Kingdom17.5%
30 Belgium16.5%
31 Norway16.2%
32 Australia15.8%
33 New Zealand13.5%
34 France11.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -2.842021 X +7.618
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.757
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.573

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -90508.837495 X +74370.153
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.743
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.552

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -17.249537 X +85.174
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.672
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.452

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.469025 X +1.506
Correlation coefficient (r)0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.105218 X +11.258
Correlation coefficient (r)0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002