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Question: Are you in favour of or against government financing of projects to create new jobs?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain96.0%
2 Latvia95.0%
3 Hungary88.8%
4 Norway87.9%
5 New Zealand86.5%
6 Australia86.4%
7 United Kingdom85.9%
8 Belgium85.5%
9 Republic of Korea85.2%
10 Israel85.1%
11 United States84.6%
12 Chile82.5%
13 Slovenia82.4%
14 France81.6%
15 Slovakia80.0%
16 Iceland79.0%
17 Switzerland78.2%
18 Denmark77.4%
19 Lithuania77.1%
20 Finland75.9%
21 Turkiye71.2%
22 Czech Republic69.8%
22 Germany69.8%
24 Sweden67.4%
25 Japan 67.3%

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 = -0.230985 X +6.925
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 8465.354716 X +38846.543
Correlation coefficient (r)0.027
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -4.243952 X +83.756
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.320875 X +1.886
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 4.748396 X +7.113
Correlation coefficient (r)0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007