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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 Republic of Korea73.4%
2 Australia58.7%
3 Japan58.2%
4 United States56.8%
5 France 54.1%
6 Canada51.8%
7 Germany37.6%

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 = -1.891091 X +7.645
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.514
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.264

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -39017.598436 X +72282.106
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.256
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 7.012710 X +77.987
Correlation coefficient (r)0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.017747 X +2.599
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.628
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.394

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 35.648387 X -7.403
Correlation coefficient (r)0.878
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.771