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Question: Are you in favour of or against government financing of projects to create new jobs?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain96.5%
2 Hungary95.2%
3 Latvia94.6%
3 Poland94.6%
5 Ireland93.2%
6 Republic of Korea92.8%
7 Portugal92.5%
8 Chile89.9%
9 Slovenia88.4%
10 Israel87.6%
11 Australia86.1%
12 Norway85.9%
13 France78.1%
14 Czech Republic77.8%
15 Netherlands76.3%
16 United States75.1%
17 New Zealand74.7%
18 Denmark72.7%
19 Canada72.2%
20 Finland69.9%
21 Switzerland68.0%
22 Germany 67.8%
23 Japan61.0%

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 = -2.818681 X +9.135
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.517
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.267

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -86827.189536 X +119198.101
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.383
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -8.904607 X +88.260
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.373
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.139

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.046082 X +1.597
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.014
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 2.335079 X +11.498
Correlation coefficient (r)0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003