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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to keep prices under control?
Choices: "Definately should be" "Probably should be" "Probably should not be" "Definately should not be"
Data: % of "Definately should be" "Probably should be"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea96.7%
2 Portugal96.3%
3 Chile93.0%
3 Ireland93.0%
5 Japan 92.2%
6 Spain91.0%
7 Norway89.5%
8 Israel87.6%
9 Hungary87.0%
10 Australia86.8%
11 Slovenia86.2%
12 United States85.2%
13 Latvia83.6%
14 France82.9%
15 Switzerland82.5%
16 Netherlands79.6%
17 Finland78.7%
18 Germany78.4%
19 Poland77.9%
20 Denmark77.4%
21 New Zealand76.9%
22 Canada70.2%
23 Czech Republic67.4%

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 = -3.084846 X +9.359
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.476
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.227

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -3644.384169 X +51700.741
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.011
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 8.869096 X +73.254
Correlation coefficient (r)0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.940339 X +2.385
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.193
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 6.032949 X +5.475
Correlation coefficient (r)0.132
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017