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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in unemployment benefits? 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 Latvia63.2%
2 Spain53.5%
3 Slovenia49.8%
4 Italy48.6%
5 Ireland47.4%
6 Poland45.7%
7 Israel45.5%
8 Switzerland42.7%
9 Germany37.6%
10 United States35.9%
11 Japan 35.5%
12 Hungary34.2%
13 France20.5%
14 Czech Republic19.7%
15 Norway19.6%
16 Canada16.6%
17 Australia12.4%
18 New Zealand10.3%

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 = -1.060547 X +7.079
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.422
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.178

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -41521.053136 X +64934.387
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.229
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -6.367160 X +82.893
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.282
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -0.157989 X +1.686
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -0.888435 X +10.345
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002