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Question: If the government had to choose between keeping down inflation or keeping down unemployment, to which do you think it should give highest priority?
Choices: "Keeping down inflation" "Keeping down unemployment"
Data: % of "Keeping down inflation"
Period:
Area:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany59.2%
2 Japan50.2%
3 Australia42.4%
4 Canada39.5%
5 Italy22.4%
6 France 18.3%

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 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.198443 X +6.535
Correlation coefficient (r)0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 21016.820519 X +38356.163
Correlation coefficient (r)0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.694871 X +82.985
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.210624 X +1.596
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 7.577829 X +6.417
Correlation coefficient (r)0.427
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.182