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Question: Thinking about restrictions on public activity in [SURVEY PUBLIC] over the course of the coronavirus outbreak, do you think there should have been more restrictions, fewer restrictions, or were the restrictions about right?
Choices: "More restrictions" "Fewer restrictions" "Restrictions were about right"
Data: % of "Fewer restrictions"
Period:
Area:
15 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Greece44.0%
2 United States24.2%
3 Belgium23.9%
4 France23.8%
5 Germany 23.1%
6 Netherlands19.9%
7 Italy18.5%
8 Republic of Korea16.5%
9 Canada16.0%
10 Australia15.7%
11 Spain14.4%
12 United Kingdom11.6%
13 New Zealand9.8%
14 Japan9.2%
15 Sweden6.4%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 23 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes & Trends" Spring 2021. For the United States, "American Trends Panel Wave 82" February 2-7, 2021.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -1.905715 X +7.028
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.391
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.153

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -37626.330655 X +53252.529
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -10.899676 X +83.946
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.511
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.261

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 0.117831 X +1.460
Correlation coefficient (r)0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -14.242992 X +12.857
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084