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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:
2 Japan21.2%
3 Canada18.9%
4 Germany17.8%
5 France 17.0%
7 United States11.2%

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 2 countries.
Source
ISSP 2006

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -4.215490 X +7.329
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.489
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.239
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -445765.229345 X +130303.572
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.943
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.889
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 60.913761 X +70.631
Correlation coefficient (r)0.934
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.872
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -4.252641 X +2.234
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.705
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.497
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -33.624295 X +16.792
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.515
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.265