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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in unemployment benefits? 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 Italy48.6%
2 Germany37.6%
3 United States35.9%
4 Japan35.5%
5 France 20.5%
6 Canada16.6%

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 = -1.412355 X +7.014
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.543
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.295

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -17535.508665 X +56696.939
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.964310 X +81.104
Correlation coefficient (r)0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.757428 X +1.704
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.395
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.156

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -11.286340 X +13.552
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.384
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147