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Question: If the government had to choose between keeping down inflation or keeping down unemployment, to which do you think it should give highest priority?
Choices: "Keeping down inflation" "Keeping down unemployment"
Data: % of "Keeping down inflation"
Period:
Area:
15 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Czech Republic64.9%
2 Germany59.2%
3 Hungary54.8%
4 Japan 50.2%
5 Slovenia49.5%
6 New Zealand47.6%
7 Poland47.1%
8 Australia42.4%
9 Canada39.5%
10 Israel38.5%
11 Ireland34.0%
12 Latvia30.0%
13 Italy22.4%
14 Spain21.5%
15 France18.3%

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 23 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 0.235441 X +6.540
Correlation coefficient (r)0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -25853.439493 X +52537.565
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.164
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -7.331515 X +83.563
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 0.242284 X +1.540
Correlation coefficient (r)0.080
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 7.039088 X +6.844
Correlation coefficient (r)0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094