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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye61.5%
2 Chile 47.1%
3 Spain41.4%
4 Latvia41.1%
5 Israel40.0%
6 Slovakia34.7%
7 Lithuania33.3%
8 Slovenia32.7%
9 Hungary32.3%
10 Germany29.0%
11 Republic of Korea27.0%
12 Belgium23.1%
13 United States21.6%
14 Japan21.4%
15 Iceland20.6%
16 Switzerland18.7%
17 Czech Republic18.6%
18 Australia16.2%
19 France15.4%
20 Sweden14.9%
21 New Zealand13.8%
22 Norway12.9%
22 United Kingdom12.9%
24 Denmark12.8%
25 Finland11.1%

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 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.344274 X +7.613
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.704
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.496

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -123483.270504 X +78016.723
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.648
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.420

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -13.663496 X +83.891
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.501
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.251

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.384635 X +1.525
Correlation coefficient (r)0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -7.844844 X +13.015
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055