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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in old age pensions? Remember that if you say "much more", it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Choices: "Spend much more" "Spend more" "Spend the same as now" "Spend less" "Spend much less"
Data: % of "Spend much more" "Spend more"
Period:
Area:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia93.8%
2 Hungary84.9%
3 Poland82.4%
4 United States80.0%
5 Israel76.0%
6 Ireland74.9%
7 Italy67.8%
8 Spain67.5%
9 Czech Republic66.7%
10 Japan 59.5%
11 Slovenia58.9%
12 Norway57.0%
13 Switzerland56.9%
14 Australia49.8%
15 Germany49.3%
16 New Zealand46.3%
17 France32.5%
18 Canada29.3%

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 20 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -0.848144 X +7.236
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -34266.329791 X +71779.603
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -13.500838 X +89.135
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.675
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.456

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.195091 X +1.507
Correlation coefficient (r)0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 2.672832 X +8.347
Correlation coefficient (r)0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023