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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the police and law enforcement? 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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Iceland79.8%
2 Germany76.5%
3 Sweden75.2%
4 Slovenia68.3%
5 Republic of Korea66.7%
6 New Zealand62.2%
7 Finland61.7%
8 United Kingdom60.6%
9 Turkiye59.6%
10 Norway58.6%
11 Israel57.5%
12 Australia57.3%
13 Denmark55.1%
14 Spain52.2%
15 Lithuania51.6%
16 Latvia51.5%
17 United States50.7%
18 Chile47.6%
19 Belgium45.5%
20 Hungary44.0%
21 Czech Republic43.6%
22 France43.4%
23 Switzerland32.9%
24 Slovakia30.5%
25 Japan 16.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.406149 X +5.979
Correlation coefficient (r)0.334
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 31039.158850 X +28954.864
Correlation coefficient (r)0.183
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 4.736333 X +77.760
Correlation coefficient (r)0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.232652 X +1.500
Correlation coefficient (r)0.093
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.999275 X +10.423
Correlation coefficient (r)0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001