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Question: Are you in favour of or against government financing of projects to create new jobs?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea92.8%
2 Australia86.1%
3 France78.1%
4 United States75.1%
5 Canada72.2%
6 Germany67.8%
7 Japan 61.0%

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 = -0.361328 X +6.969
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -296.469096 X +50886.925
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.003
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.660974 X +80.635
Correlation coefficient (r)0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.023823 X +2.231
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.351
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.123

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 32.856169 X -9.251
Correlation coefficient (r)0.602
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.362