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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia86.4%
2 United Kingdom85.9%
3 Republic of Korea85.2%
4 United States84.6%
5 France 81.6%
6 Germany69.8%
7 Sweden67.4%
8 Japan67.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.260087 X +6.869
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 42306.855584 X +16801.542
Correlation coefficient (r)0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -10.077548 X +89.738
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.342
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.117

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.177367 X +1.653
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 9.608272 X +4.496
Correlation coefficient (r)0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036