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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in culture and the arts? 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:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia57.5%
2 Poland52.3%
3 Israel51.1%
4 Slovenia50.2%
5 Hungary49.0%
6 Spain46.7%
7 Italy44.0%
8 Japan 35.9%
9 Czech Republic28.4%
10 Canada23.2%
11 Ireland22.7%
12 France18.5%
13 Germany18.2%
14 Switzerland14.7%
15 New Zealand13.4%
16 Australia12.6%
17 Norway8.2%
18 United States6.5%

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 20 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -1.225816 X +7.079
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.547
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.299

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -117228.770874 X +86223.130
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.724
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.524

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -7.873814 X +83.053
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.390
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.152

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.104455 X +1.597
Correlation coefficient (r)0.047
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -1.544263 X +10.505
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007