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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France64.8%
2 Australia59.1%
3 Italy54.4%
4 Germany52.0%
5 Japan 51.2%
6 Canada50.9%
7 United States41.9%

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 = -0.257284 X +6.908
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.046
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -64940.652476 X +85481.837
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.379
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 19.490051 X +71.321
Correlation coefficient (r)0.613
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.376

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.940583 X +1.006
Correlation coefficient (r)0.338
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -11.849607 X +18.979
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.277
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077