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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in fighting unemployment?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia52.5%
2 Canada34.6%
3 United States29.6%
4 United Kingdom29.5%
5 France 14.8%
6 Sweden9.4%
7 Japan8.9%
8 Germany6.4%
9 Republic of Korea5.6%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.197785 X +6.437
Correlation coefficient (r)0.461
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 56472.358714 X +38576.598
Correlation coefficient (r)0.641
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.411

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.992291 X +82.547
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.720828 X +1.351
Correlation coefficient (r)0.385
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.148

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -7.026176 X +13.346
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074