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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in culture and the arts? Remember that if you say "much more", it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Choices: "Spend much more" "Spend more" "Spend the same as now" "Spend less" "Spend much less"
Data: % of "Spend much more" "Spend more"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy44.0%
2 Japan 35.9%
3 Canada23.2%
4 France18.5%
5 Germany18.2%
6 Australia12.6%
7 United States6.5%

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 = -2.341303 X +7.302
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.765
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.585
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -85320.304312 X +70124.852
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.910
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.828
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 10.547102 X +79.349
Correlation coefficient (r)0.606
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.367
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.193281 X +1.779
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.784
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.615
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -14.537321 X +15.943
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.621
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.386