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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the military and defence? 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 Israel56.4%
2 Poland55.2%
3 Latvia41.5%
4 Hungary32.4%
5 Australia26.8%
6 Slovenia25.4%
7 Ireland24.0%
8 United States18.6%
9 New Zealand17.2%
10 Spain15.4%
11 Switzerland13.7%
12 Czech Republic11.8%
13 Norway10.5%
14 Japan 9.7%
15 Canada8.2%
16 Germany7.3%
17 France7.2%
17 Italy7.2%

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 = 0.005119 X +6.701
Correlation coefficient (r)0.002
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -43679.698078 X +60919.424
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -8.046004 X +82.720
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.441
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 1.149510 X +1.308
Correlation coefficient (r)0.476
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.227

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 1.633719 X +9.677
Correlation coefficient (r)0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007