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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the military and defence? 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 Israel55.5%
2 Poland47.8%
3 Canada43.4%
4 Republic of Korea37.4%
5 United States31.0%
6 Portugal30.9%
7 Ireland25.3%
8 Australia25.2%
9 New Zealand25.0%
10 Latvia24.8%
11 Hungary24.4%
12 Chile 20.8%
13 Japan20.5%
14 Spain19.2%
15 Norway14.0%
16 Finland13.0%
17 Slovenia12.7%
18 Switzerland12.0%
19 Germany11.7%
20 Czech Republic10.0%
21 France8.7%
22 Denmark5.7%
23 Netherlands4.3%

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 = -0.987009 X +6.982
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -33468.530625 X +56241.601
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -3.148505 X +81.451
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.482682 X +1.482
Correlation coefficient (r)0.172
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 1.349613 X +10.256
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003