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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the police and law enforcement? 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 New Zealand83.8%
2 Ireland76.7%
3 United States74.0%
4 Poland73.5%
5 Australia67.3%
6 Hungary65.0%
7 Spain64.6%
8 Germany62.2%
8 Norway62.2%
10 Israel56.9%
11 Switzerland46.8%
12 Czech Republic 43.2%
13 Latvia42.5%
14 Slovenia41.0%
15 France38.6%
16 Canada33.8%
17 Italy32.0%
18 Japan25.8%

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 = 0.752054 X +6.380
Correlation coefficient (r)0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 39261.441197 X +27298.444
Correlation coefficient (r)0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -3.262835 X +82.578
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.198
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.221926 X +1.471
Correlation coefficient (r)0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -4.890411 X +15.378
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045