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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 Australia93.1%
2 Republic of Korea90.9%
3 United States85.4%
4 France 82.7%
5 Canada81.9%
6 Germany80.7%
7 Japan80.6%

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 = 0.959179 X +5.774
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 68495.676562 X -7740.395
Correlation coefficient (r)0.214
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 5.707124 X +77.046
Correlation coefficient (r)0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.555506 X +2.796
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 48.501053 X -28.758
Correlation coefficient (r)0.569
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.324