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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:
1 Canada43.4%
2 Republic of Korea37.4%
3 United States31.0%
4 Australia25.2%
5 Japan20.5%
6 Germany11.7%
7 France 8.7%

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 = 0.037478 X +6.580
Correlation coefficient (r)0.012
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 25061.114703 X +44141.182
Correlation coefficient (r)0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.512127 X +82.030
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.024
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.445298 X +1.840
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.545
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.297

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 18.522147 X +7.781
Correlation coefficient (r)0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305