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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:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland95.7%
2 Australia93.1%
3 New Zealand92.6%
4 Latvia91.2%
4 Poland91.2%
6 Republic of Korea90.9%
7 Slovenia90.5%
8 Norway89.8%
9 Spain87.8%
10 Portugal87.3%
11 Hungary86.1%
12 United States85.4%
13 Israel84.1%
14 France82.7%
15 Canada81.9%
16 Germany80.7%
17 Japan 80.6%
18 Netherlands77.6%
19 Denmark77.2%
20 Chile74.8%
21 Switzerland69.6%
22 Czech Republic66.2%
23 Finland65.3%

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 = -2.100240 X +8.512
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -7165.115344 X +56051.218
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.024
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.212255 X +81.169
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.003435 X +1.519
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.001
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 7.030257 X +4.688
Correlation coefficient (r)0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029