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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in culture and the arts? 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:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland49.5%
2 Hungary48.6%
3 Portugal48.3%
4 Spain47.5%
5 Israel47.3%
6 Latvia42.1%
7 Chile 39.1%
8 Republic of Korea38.8%
9 Slovenia37.1%
10 Ireland34.0%
11 Japan21.2%
12 Czech Republic19.1%
13 Canada18.9%
14 Germany17.8%
15 France17.0%
16 Australia14.5%
17 Switzerland13.1%
18 Norway11.8%
19 Denmark11.6%
20 New Zealand11.4%
21 United States11.2%
22 Finland10.9%
23 Netherlands9.6%

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 15 countries.
Source
ISSP 2006

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -2.104796 X +7.325
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.637
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.406
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -102552.371678 X +76289.170
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.584
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.341
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -7.438109 X +82.741
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.360
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.037569 X +1.602
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.015
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1.668686 X +11.014
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005