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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to provide health care for the sick?
Choices: "Definately should be" "Probably should be" "Probably should not be" "Definately should not be"
Data: % of "Definately should be" "Probably should be"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary99.5%
1 Ireland99.5%
3 Norway99.2%
4 Denmark99.1%
4 Netherlands99.1%
6 United States99.0%
7 Finland98.9%
8 Poland98.8%
9 Portugal98.6%
10 Australia98.4%
11 New Zealand98.0%
11 Slovenia98.0%
13 Chile97.9%
14 Spain97.7%
15 Canada96.2%
16 Germany96.1%
17 Czech Republic95.9%
18 Latvia95.8%
19 Israel95.7%
20 Switzerland 93.6%
21 France92.4%
22 Republic of Korea90.6%
23 Japan86.8%

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 = 5.989901 X +0.963
Correlation coefficient (r)0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 152444.276074 X -98833.228
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -34.479551 X +114.087
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.350
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 2.095474 X -0.435
Correlation coefficient (r)0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -36.155162 X +45.537
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.325
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106