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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 Australia67.3%
2 Republic of Korea63.7%
3 United States62.9%
4 Canada53.9%
5 Germany44.5%
6 France 34.1%
7 Japan27.6%

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 = 1.006299 X +6.081
Correlation coefficient (r)0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 59469.620809 X +20435.649
Correlation coefficient (r)0.572
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.327

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -5.528778 X +84.696
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.365261 X +1.658
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 13.022345 X +5.903
Correlation coefficient (r)0.470
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.221