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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 Republic of Korea38.8%
2 Japan21.2%
3 Canada18.9%
4 Germany17.8%
5 France 17.0%
6 Australia14.5%
7 United States11.2%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -3.156839 X +7.218
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.722
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.521

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -134590.081305 X +77312.939
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.743
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.552

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 15.681518 X +78.777
Correlation coefficient (r)0.518
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.268

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -3.523114 X +2.174
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.922
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.850

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 35.996536 X +5.320
Correlation coefficient (r)0.745
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.555