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Question: Are you in favour of or against government support for industry to develop new products and technology?
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:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia95.5%
2 Latvia95.3%
3 Ireland93.5%
4 New Zealand90.1%
5 Slovenia89.5%
6 United States88.2%
7 Hungary87.7%
8 Israel87.5%
8 Spain87.5%
10 Norway84.6%
11 Poland84.3%
12 Japan 83.5%
13 Czech Republic82.8%
14 Canada82.1%
15 Germany80.3%
16 France79.2%
17 Italy77.4%
18 Switzerland66.2%

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 = -0.271593 X +6.934
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.049
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -49789.232777 X +92666.017
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -16.038996 X +94.313
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.968966 X +0.803
Correlation coefficient (r)0.176
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 15.888684 X -3.521
Correlation coefficient (r)0.359
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.129