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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to give financial help to university students from low-income families?
Choices: "Definately should be" "Probably should be" "Probably should not be" "Definately should not be"
Data: % of "Definately should be" "Probably should be"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 94.1%
2 Germany92.2%
3 Canada90.3%
4 Australia89.1%
4 United States89.1%
6 Republic of Korea80.1%
7 Japan57.9%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.324949 X +4.621
Correlation coefficient (r)0.751
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.564

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 67257.804756 X -6447.467
Correlation coefficient (r)0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -9.711887 X +90.125
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.453
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.205

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.407132 X +0.281
Correlation coefficient (r)0.521
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.271

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -10.495477 X +21.377
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094