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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in education? 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 United States84.5%
2 Italy70.9%
3 Australia70.4%
4 Canada66.3%
5 France 63.9%
6 Germany54.0%
7 Japan50.7%

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 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.290682 X +5.778
Correlation coefficient (r)0.430
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.185

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 98318.405887 X -13959.128
Correlation coefficient (r)0.701
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.491

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -15.630848 X +92.087
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.669
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.448

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.527030 X +1.189
Correlation coefficient (r)0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6.326635 X +5.920
Correlation coefficient (r)0.222
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049