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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in health? 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 States91.5%
2 Australia79.9%
3 Italy76.9%
4 Japan69.0%
5 Germany59.4%
6 Canada55.6%
7 France 48.9%

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 = 0.023481 X +6.612
Correlation coefficient (r)0.010
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 53423.389481 X +14023.664
Correlation coefficient (r)0.508
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.258

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -8.191602 X +87.431
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.467
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.218

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.190331 X +1.667
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6.571019 X +5.567
Correlation coefficient (r)0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094