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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany76.5%
4 United Kingdom60.6%
6 United States50.7%
7 France 43.4%
8 Japan16.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.154727 X +6.000
Correlation coefficient (r)0.877
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.769

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 33375.720626 X +36098.643
Correlation coefficient (r)0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -5.396153 X +83.956
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.303811 X +1.399
Correlation coefficient (r)0.332
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -7.509719 X +14.035
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.541
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.293