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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Germany34.4%
3 United States31.1%
5 Japan21.6%
6 United Kingdom17.5%
8 France 11.7%

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 = 0.630689 X +6.426
Correlation coefficient (r)0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 100434.176588 X +29292.011
Correlation coefficient (r)0.535
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.286

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -15.981100 X +84.997
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.611
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.373

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.695516 X +1.712
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.323
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 9.682315 X +8.058
Correlation coefficient (r)0.297
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088