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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in unemployment benefits? 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 Chile80.1%
2 United States63.9%
3 Slovenia59.3%
4 Poland58.4%
5 Hungary53.6%
6 Norway52.1%
7 Japan51.8%
8 Republic of Korea44.1%
9 Ireland41.4%
10 Portugal41.2%
11 Germany40.3%
12 France32.8%
13 Spain29.3%
14 Israel28.2%
15 Canada25.9%
16 Denmark19.8%
17 New Zealand19.2%
18 Czech Republic17.9%
19 Switzerland 15.7%
20 Finland14.0%
21 Australia12.1%
22 Latvia11.8%
23 Netherlands6.2%

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 = -1.275622 X +7.211
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.504
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.254

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -28387.448705 X +58736.417
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -3.641639 X +82.032
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.347138 X +1.715
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 1.507883 X +10.026
Correlation coefficient (r)0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007