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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 Republic of Korea88.5%
2 United States87.9%
3 Australia85.5%
4 France 82.6%
5 Canada76.0%
6 Japan66.6%
7 Germany59.4%

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 = 0.308684 X +6.349
Correlation coefficient (r)0.089
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 45584.403831 X +14921.890
Correlation coefficient (r)0.319
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.911474 X +85.734
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.221725 X +1.646
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 22.769347 X -5.288
Correlation coefficient (r)0.597
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.356