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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 United States63.9%
2 Japan51.8%
3 Republic of Korea44.1%
4 Germany40.3%
5 France 32.8%
6 Canada25.9%
7 Australia12.1%

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 = -1.301729 X +7.093
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.569
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.324

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -3324.192642 X +51796.748
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -8.591753 X +85.225
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.542
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.294

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.490491 X +1.663
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.245
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 9.455284 X +8.829
Correlation coefficient (r)0.374
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.140