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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in health? 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 United States91.5%
2 Australia79.9%
3 Italy76.9%
4 Japan 69.0%
5 Germany59.4%
6 Canada55.6%
7 France48.9%

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 = 0.165385 X +6.656
Correlation coefficient (r)0.062
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 39239.207645 X +23782.990
Correlation coefficient (r)0.482
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.232

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -5.885424 X +85.789
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.389
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.263996 X +1.690
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.512188 X +11.603
Correlation coefficient (r)0.074
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005