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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to provide health care for the sick?
Choices: "Definately should be" "Probably should be" "Probably should not be" "Definately should not be"
Data: % of "Definately should be" "Probably should be"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States99.0%
2 Australia98.4%
3 Canada96.2%
4 Germany96.1%
5 France92.4%
6 Republic of Korea90.6%
7 Japan 86.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. 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 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 10.250845 X -2.964
Correlation coefficient (r)0.905
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.819

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 249561.048949 X -184461.017
Correlation coefficient (r)0.896
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.803

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -37.602128 X +117.327
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.709
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.503

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 3.216690 X -1.579
Correlation coefficient (r)0.457
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.209

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -55.218391 X +67.795
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.419
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176