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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the police and law enforcement? 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 States74.0%
2 Australia67.3%
3 Germany62.2%
4 France 38.6%
5 Canada33.8%
6 Italy32.0%
7 Japan25.8%

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 = 1.131146 X +6.088
Correlation coefficient (r)0.651
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.424

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 68540.372093 X +18074.254
Correlation coefficient (r)0.844
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.712

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -9.466334 X +86.313
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.699
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.489

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.680450 X +1.211
Correlation coefficient (r)0.616
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.379

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6.837946 X +6.825
Correlation coefficient (r)0.415
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.172