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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:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile95.6%
2 Hungary93.5%
2 Portugal93.5%
4 Ireland92.9%
5 Poland92.2%
6 Australia90.3%
7 Israel90.0%
8 Latvia87.2%
9 Spain87.1%
10 Norway85.6%
11 New Zealand83.8%
12 United States82.1%
13 Republic of Korea81.2%
14 Slovenia81.0%
15 Denmark80.9%
16 Finland80.7%
17 Switzerland 79.9%
18 Canada77.1%
19 Czech Republic72.3%
20 Netherlands70.3%
21 Germany65.7%
22 Japan64.7%
23 France59.6%

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 = -0.616185 X +7.263
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -11526.449826 X +58084.485
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -9.420610 X +88.465
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.196180 X +1.431
Correlation coefficient (r)0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -3.790442 X +13.674
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011