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Question: Are you in favour of or against government financing of projects to create new jobs?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea92.8%
2 Australia86.1%
3 France 78.1%
4 United States75.1%
5 Canada72.2%
6 Germany67.8%
7 Japan61.0%

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 = 0.202882 X +6.435
Correlation coefficient (r)0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6775.938865 X +45349.924
Correlation coefficient (r)0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.146622 X +80.265
Correlation coefficient (r)0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.917148 X +2.171
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 24.695577 X -6.319
Correlation coefficient (r)0.617
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.381