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Question: Generally, how would you describe taxes in the country today for those with high incomes? Taxes are...
Choices: "much too high" "too high" "about right" "too low" "much too low"
Data: % of "much too high" "too high"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand49.7%
2 Australia42.2%
3 Denmark33.9%
4 Canada33.3%
5 Israel 28.7%
6 Switzerland27.9%
7 United States27.6%
8 France26.7%
9 Czech Republic24.9%
10 Norway24.0%
11 Ireland23.5%
12 Chile22.6%
13 Latvia20.2%
14 Spain20.1%
15 Portugal18.7%
16 Japan18.4%
17 Netherlands17.1%
18 Finland16.6%
19 Slovenia15.1%
20 Poland13.5%
21 Hungary13.3%
22 Germany12.1%
23 Republic of Korea8.3%

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 = 2.907021 X +6.138
Correlation coefficient (r)0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 94135.487337 X +25778.936
Correlation coefficient (r)0.378
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.143

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 6.674413 X +79.377
Correlation coefficient (r)0.254
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 1.243874 X +1.268
Correlation coefficient (r)0.346
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -20.686360 X +18.260
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.422
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.178