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Question: Are you in favour of or against cuts in government spending?
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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France89.1%
2 Latvia89.0%
2 Lithuania89.0%
4 Slovakia86.4%
5 Israel81.8%
6 Hungary81.0%
7 Japan74.1%
8 Belgium73.9%
9 Slovenia68.3%
10 Chile67.7%
11 United States64.3%
12 Norway58.5%
13 Australia58.1%
13 Germany58.1%
15 Czech Republic56.4%
16 Turkiye54.7%
17 Republic of Korea51.3%
17 Switzerland51.3%
19 Iceland50.5%
20 New Zealand47.4%
21 Spain46.9%
22 Denmark44.5%
23 Finland 43.9%
24 Sweden41.4%
25 United Kingdom31.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.104866 X +7.453
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -53788.359571 X +79259.587
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.368
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -10.555450 X +86.900
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.506
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.256

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.472259 X +1.331
Correlation coefficient (r)0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 6.760071 X +6.746
Correlation coefficient (r)0.263
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069