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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the military and defence? 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:
2 United States18.6%
3 Japan9.7%
4 Canada8.2%
5 Germany7.3%
6 France 7.2%
6 Italy7.2%

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 = 1.047333 X +6.455
Correlation coefficient (r)0.152
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 309707.681508 X +20965.022
Correlation coefficient (r)0.818
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.669

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -39.630967 X +85.261
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.774
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.599

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.794023 X +1.284
Correlation coefficient (r)0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 58.996189 X +4.167
Correlation coefficient (r)0.756
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.572