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Question: Are you in favour of or against government support for industry to develop new products and technology?
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 Australia95.5%
2 United States88.2%
3 Japan83.5%
4 Canada82.1%
5 Germany80.3%
6 France 79.2%
7 Italy77.4%

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 = 2.940564 X +4.165
Correlation coefficient (r)0.541
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.293

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 182900.289901 X -102417.500
Correlation coefficient (r)0.720
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.518

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -6.139299 X +86.941
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.145
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.301191 X +0.446
Correlation coefficient (r)0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 33.053626 X -17.596
Correlation coefficient (r)0.640
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.410