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Question: Are you in favour of or against less government regulation of business?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany73.4%
2 Republic of Korea68.9%
3 Netherlands68.8%
4 Slovenia63.7%
5 France61.9%
6 Portugal61.2%
7 Czech Republic60.4%
8 New Zealand60.0%
9 Poland58.7%
10 Canada52.7%
11 Ireland52.6%
12 Latvia51.7%
13 Hungary51.2%
14 Australia49.3%
15 Switzerland47.2%
16 United States47.0%
17 Norway43.9%
18 Israel42.2%
19 Japan39.6%
20 Denmark38.5%
21 Spain35.3%
22 Finland31.5%
23 Chile 30.4%

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 15 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.947391 X +7.247
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.228
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -30281.645349 X +64295.559
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.137
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -2.297009 X +81.923
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.392956 X +1.795
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 7.027796 X +6.927
Correlation coefficient (r)0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057