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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the environment? 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 Japan 70.7%
2 Italy60.4%
3 Germany58.1%
4 Canada50.1%
5 France48.2%
6 Australia48.1%
7 United States44.6%

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 = -3.511204 X +8.677
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.806
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.650

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -100051.269432 X +105099.275
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.750
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.562

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 15.454228 X +73.349
Correlation coefficient (r)0.623
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.388

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.485045 X +2.315
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.685
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.469

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -5.934048 X +15.866
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.178
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032