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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 Germany82.4%
2 Australia79.7%
3 United States72.6%
4 Republic of Korea71.1%
5 Canada66.4%
6 France 58.7%
7 Japan52.8%

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 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.992136 X +5.213
Correlation coefficient (r)0.546
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.298

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 76700.978679 X -2490.091
Correlation coefficient (r)0.508
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.258

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -8.979960 X +88.105
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.346761 X +1.233
Correlation coefficient (r)0.109
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.792846 X +13.036
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000