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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the police and law enforcement? 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 Ireland81.3%
2 Spain79.2%
3 Norway71.0%
4 Switzerland68.1%
5 Australia67.3%
6 New Zealand65.7%
7 Poland65.0%
8 Denmark64.1%
9 Republic of Korea63.7%
10 United States62.9%
11 Israel62.8%
11 Portugal62.8%
13 Chile57.5%
14 Canada53.9%
15 Finland 53.5%
16 Netherlands52.1%
17 Hungary47.1%
18 Germany44.5%
19 Latvia44.0%
20 Slovenia38.5%
21 Czech Republic35.4%
22 France34.1%
23 Japan27.6%

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 = 0.867065 X +6.266
Correlation coefficient (r)0.246
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 92853.668999 X -3940.505
Correlation coefficient (r)0.495
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.245

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 5.150320 X +77.819
Correlation coefficient (r)0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.141921 X +1.672
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -6.312725 X +14.137
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.253
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064