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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in unemployment benefits? 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 Italy48.6%
2 Germany37.6%
3 United States35.9%
4 Japan 35.5%
5 France20.5%
6 Canada16.6%
7 Australia12.4%

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 = -1.523746 X +7.221
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.502
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.252

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -40510.401035 X +62742.434
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -3.433678 X +82.759
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.748714 X +1.730
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -7.192457 X +14.771
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.310
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.096