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Question: Are you in favour of or against less government regulation of business?
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 France 64.8%
2 Australia59.1%
3 Italy54.4%
4 Germany52.0%
5 Japan51.2%
6 Canada50.9%
7 United States41.9%

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 = 0.405405 X +6.411
Correlation coefficient (r)0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -96313.526145 X +102248.647
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 23.335493 X +69.322
Correlation coefficient (r)0.633
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.401

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.068024 X +0.965
Correlation coefficient (r)0.355
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.126

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -18.722212 X +20.095
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.417
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.174