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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - It is the responsibility of the government to reduce the differences in income between people with high incomes and those with low incomes
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 68.0%
2 Italy64.7%
3 Germany57.9%
4 United States54.0%
5 Japan47.8%
6 Canada42.9%
7 Australia42.5%

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 = -1.225811 X +7.289
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.367
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -65891.329810 X +86310.921
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.422
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.178

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.528770 X +84.244
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.174
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.319748 X +1.363
Correlation coefficient (r)0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -16.839429 X +19.173
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.531
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.282