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Question: Are you in favour of or against government financing of projects to create new jobs?
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 Latvia95.7%
2 Spain95.2%
3 Hungary93.0%
4 Poland92.7%
5 Ireland91.5%
6 Italy90.4%
7 Slovenia87.3%
8 Israel87.0%
9 Norway85.7%
10 United States85.3%
11 Australia84.2%
12 Germany81.4%
13 France76.3%
14 Czech Republic74.0%
15 Japan 71.4%
16 Canada70.6%
17 Switzerland69.3%
18 New Zealand54.3%

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 = -1.204173 X +7.696
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.342
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.117

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -41102.009094 X +84117.341
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -13.071824 X +91.420
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.413
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -0.074338 X +1.691
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -1.813294 X +11.526
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.065
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004