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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy90.4%
2 United States85.3%
3 Australia84.2%
4 Germany81.4%
5 France76.3%
6 Japan 71.4%
7 Canada70.6%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.253222 X +5.768
Correlation coefficient (r)0.232
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 30213.151029 X +26603.887
Correlation coefficient (r)0.183
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -11.654168 X +91.060
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.380
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.146328 X +1.626
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.055
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -19.218119 X +28.006
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.466
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.217