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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy86.7%
2 France 77.2%
3 Republic of Korea75.1%
4 Germany65.5%
5 United Kingdom60.6%
6 Sweden58.0%
7 Japan54.4%
8 Australia51.3%
9 United States32.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.015369 X +7.261
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -75389.313683 X +95278.290
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.804
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.646

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 8.314425 X +76.747
Correlation coefficient (r)0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.767613 X +1.963
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.394
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.155

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -8.534004 X +16.508
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080