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Question: Are you in favour of or against less government regulation of business?
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:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France64.8%
2 Israel63.1%
3 Slovenia59.5%
4 Australia59.1%
5 New Zealand57.4%
6 Ireland56.8%
7 Italy54.4%
8 Germany52.0%
9 Hungary51.3%
10 Japan51.2%
11 Canada50.9%
12 Latvia46.4%
13 Norway46.2%
13 Poland46.2%
15 Czech Republic45.6%
16 Switzerland 44.2%
17 Spain42.6%
18 United States41.9%

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 = 1.245190 X +6.057
Correlation coefficient (r)0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -14753.499112 X +57853.482
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 18.120782 X +71.235
Correlation coefficient (r)0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 2.886284 X +0.132
Correlation coefficient (r)0.523
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.274

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -7.832919 X +14.093
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031