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Question: Are you in favour of or against government support for declining industries to protect 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 Korea70.4%
2 France 66.4%
3 United States61.7%
4 Germany59.0%
5 Japan57.0%
6 Australia51.3%
7 Canada42.0%

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 = -2.473384 X +8.031
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.602
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.362

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -64886.364477 X +88311.228
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -3.996765 X +84.228
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.940561 X +2.021
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.262
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 24.029912 X -1.511
Correlation coefficient (r)0.529
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.280