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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%
7 United States6.5%

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 1 countries.
Source
ISSP 1996

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.646983 X +6.958
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.721
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.520
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -107374.161875 X +77188.066
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.858
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.736
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 14.332471 X +77.922
Correlation coefficient (r)0.846
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.716
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.334290 X +1.784
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.793
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.629
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -16.865342 X +14.002
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.654
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.428