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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to provide industry with the help it needs to grow?
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 United States93.2%
2 Australia86.5%
3 France 82.3%
4 Italy80.4%
5 Japan75.3%
6 Canada74.5%
7 Germany67.1%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.885820 X +5.920
Correlation coefficient (r)0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 110029.458490 X -37165.109
Correlation coefficient (r)0.595
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.354

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -15.049249 X +93.824
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.488
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.238

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.996096 X +0.740
Correlation coefficient (r)0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 16.922064 X -3.436
Correlation coefficient (r)0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203