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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to provide industry with the help it needs to grow?
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:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain95.8%
2 Latvia95.7%
3 Ireland94.0%
4 United States93.2%
5 Slovenia92.8%
6 Poland91.2%
7 Israel90.1%
8 Hungary89.1%
9 Australia86.5%
10 New Zealand84.7%
11 Czech Republic82.4%
12 France82.3%
13 Italy80.4%
14 Norway79.9%
15 Switzerland79.8%
16 Japan 75.3%
17 Canada74.5%
18 Germany67.1%

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 = -0.567014 X +7.186
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.118
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -44254.874333 X +87935.990
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.128
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -18.704757 X +96.582
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.763660 X +0.978
Correlation coefficient (r)0.160
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 7.672825 X +3.488
Correlation coefficient (r)0.201
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040