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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in providing a decent standard of living for the old?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark43.3%
2 New Zealand40.0%
3 Ireland39.8%
4 Canada36.7%
5 Germany36.0%
6 Spain35.8%
7 Australia34.9%
8 Finland 34.4%
9 Slovenia33.4%
10 Switzerland32.3%
11 Netherlands30.2%
12 United States29.9%
13 Czech Republic28.3%
14 Norway28.0%
15 Israel25.8%
16 France25.7%
17 Japan23.0%
18 Republic of Korea19.6%
19 Chile17.6%
20 Hungary14.7%
21 Poland10.3%
22 Portugal8.7%
23 Latvia7.1%

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 15 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 3.324618 X +5.838
Correlation coefficient (r)0.684
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.468

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 153194.615261 X +6298.444
Correlation coefficient (r)0.593
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.352

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 17.058082 X +76.022
Correlation coefficient (r)0.560
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.314

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.575427 X +1.433
Correlation coefficient (r)0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -7.910222 X +12.749
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053