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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - It is the responsibility of the government to reduce the differences in income between people with high incomes and those with low incomes
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia79.6%
2 Poland78.1%
3 Spain77.3%
4 Israel69.7%
5 France 68.0%
6 Hungary66.8%
7 Ireland65.5%
8 Italy64.7%
9 Czech Republic60.3%
10 Switzerland59.6%
11 Germany57.9%
12 Norway56.7%
13 United States54.0%
14 Latvia51.3%
15 Japan47.8%
16 Canada42.9%
17 Australia42.5%
18 New Zealand38.0%

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 = -1.130257 X +7.472
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.296
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -56862.150264 X +83029.459
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -4.611497 X +83.552
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.201
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.373968 X +1.368
Correlation coefficient (r)0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -4.251081 X +15.241
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.131
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017