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Question: Generally, how would you describe taxes in the country today for those with high incomes? Taxes are...
Choices: "much too high" "too high" "about right" "too low" "much too low"
Data: % of "too low" "much too low"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany60.0%
2 Australia51.0%
3 Italy50.8%
4 Japan50.3%
5 United States47.6%
6 France 46.1%
7 Canada44.9%

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 = -0.417317 X +6.837
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.061
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -50324.677072 X +75961.092
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.158
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.840958 X +81.379
Correlation coefficient (r)0.016
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.402987 X +1.738
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.093
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -20.967438 X +20.589
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105