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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in health? 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 Poland93.9%
2 Hungary93.3%
3 Latvia92.7%
4 United States91.5%
5 New Zealand87.6%
6 Norway85.2%
7 Israel84.6%
8 Ireland83.6%
9 Czech Republic82.8%
10 Slovenia80.7%
11 Australia79.9%
12 Spain79.6%
13 Italy76.9%
14 Switzerland 76.6%
15 Japan69.0%
16 Germany59.4%
17 Canada55.6%
18 France48.9%

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 = -0.144506 X +6.817
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -9672.376360 X +57841.436
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -14.822510 X +92.341
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.550
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.303

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.233131 X +1.445
Correlation coefficient (r)0.078
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 5.291758 X +5.850
Correlation coefficient (r)0.221
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049