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Question: Are you in favour of or against less government regulation of business?
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:
35 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Thailand76.0%
2 Georgia74.1%
3 India72.8%
4 Slovenia67.5%
5 Latvia66.4%
6 France65.1%
7 South Africa61.1%
8 Hungary61.0%
9 Philippines59.9%
10 Turkiye59.6%
11 Suriname59.3%
12 Slovakia58.5%
13 Croatia57.1%
14 Czech Republic56.9%
15 Lithuania55.8%
16 United States52.1%
17 Finland51.0%
17 Venezuela51.0%
19 Republic of Korea48.7%
20 Australia48.5%
21 Belgium46.2%
22 New Zealand45.7%
23 Israel45.6%
23 Taiwan45.6%
25 Germany 45.0%
26 Switzerland44.7%
27 Norway41.4%
28 Japan41.3%
29 United Kingdom39.6%
30 Denmark39.1%
31 Spain38.3%
32 Sweden37.4%
33 Chile31.9%
34 Russian Federation29.9%
35 Iceland25.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 203 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -3.768839 X +8.347
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.510
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.260

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = -110035.569708 X +91564.715
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.543
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.295

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -18.816795 X +88.100
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.490
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.240

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.885494 X +1.257
Correlation coefficient (r)0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 1.958391 X +12.855
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001