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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in culture and the arts? Remember that if you say "much more", it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Choices: "Spend much more" "Spend more" "Spend the same as now" "Spend less" "Spend much less"
Data: % of "Spend much more" "Spend more"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy44.0%
2 Japan35.9%
3 Canada23.2%
4 France 18.5%
5 Germany18.2%
6 Australia12.6%
7 United States6.5%

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 3 countries.
Source
ISSP 1996

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.947638 X +7.070
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.752
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.566
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -105601.851492 X +74720.049
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.873
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.762
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 12.801304 X +78.894
Correlation coefficient (r)0.634
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.402
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.393277 X +1.852
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.846
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.716
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -16.250534 X +13.773
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.661
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.437