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Question: Are you in favour of or against government support for declining industries to protect 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:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal89.7%
2 Chile84.1%
3 Israel81.9%
4 Spain81.6%
5 Ireland76.1%
6 Hungary72.2%
7 Poland72.0%
8 Republic of Korea70.4%
9 Slovenia69.7%
10 France66.4%
11 United States61.7%
12 Germany59.0%
13 Japan 57.0%
14 Norway55.7%
15 Finland55.4%
16 Latvia54.7%
17 Australia51.3%
18 Switzerland51.0%
19 Denmark48.1%
20 Netherlands43.3%
21 New Zealand42.4%
22 Canada42.0%
23 Czech Republic38.3%

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 = -1.655443 X +7.782
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.488
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.238

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -53780.244238 X +81923.769
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1.444723 X +81.629
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.068
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.079762 X +1.542
Correlation coefficient (r)0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -4.686905 X +13.465
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038