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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:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia92.2%
2 France90.9%
3 Hungary90.3%
4 Israel86.0%
5 Spain85.1%
6 Slovenia84.6%
7 Germany84.2%
8 Canada80.3%
9 Japan 78.0%
10 Ireland74.3%
11 New Zealand71.0%
12 Italy69.9%
13 Poland69.1%
14 Australia68.0%
15 Norway66.2%
16 Switzerland58.4%
17 Czech Republic54.6%
18 United States44.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 20 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -1.020061 X +7.466
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.348
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.121

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -95076.444569 X +121392.462
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.449
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.202

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -0.235636 X +80.810
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.342994 X +1.373
Correlation coefficient (r)0.118
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -1.419551 X +11.093
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.061
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004