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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%
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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.039130 X +6.508
Correlation coefficient (r)0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 10099.041518 X +41052.043
Correlation coefficient (r)0.203
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.794069 X +82.900
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.464435 X +1.592
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.360
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 6.988558 X +6.316
Correlation coefficient (r)0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171