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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the military and defence? 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 Australia26.8%
2 United States18.6%
3 Japan 9.7%
4 Canada8.2%
5 Germany7.3%
6 France7.2%
6 Italy7.2%

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 = 2.423800 X +6.476
Correlation coefficient (r)0.462
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 123791.726809 X +35725.290
Correlation coefficient (r)0.770
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.593

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.302141 X +82.265
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.144
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.676575 X +1.426
Correlation coefficient (r)0.259
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 12.095413 X +11.174
Correlation coefficient (r)0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091