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Question: Are you in favour of or against government support for industry to develop new products and technology?
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 Australia95.5%
2 United States88.2%
3 Japan 83.5%
4 Canada82.1%
5 Germany80.3%
6 France79.2%
7 Italy77.4%

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 = 2.859893 X +4.375
Correlation coefficient (r)0.445
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.198

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 152728.453127 X -77142.027
Correlation coefficient (r)0.776
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.602

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.569968 X +83.895
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.776801 X +0.858
Correlation coefficient (r)0.243
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 20.587264 X -4.598
Correlation coefficient (r)0.419
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176