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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the environment? 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 Japan70.7%
2 Italy60.4%
3 Germany58.1%
4 Canada50.1%
5 France 48.2%
7 United States44.6%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -2.665309 X +8.031
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.831
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.691

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -136112.089170 X +126344.708
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.775
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.601

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 18.007928 X +71.449
Correlation coefficient (r)0.758
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.575

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.753054 X +2.429
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.742
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.551

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -10.103362 X +15.482
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078