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Question: Are you in favour of or against government support for declining industries to protect 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 Korea70.4%
2 France66.4%
3 United States61.7%
4 Germany59.0%
5 Japan 57.0%
6 Australia51.3%
7 Canada42.0%

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 = -2.934690 X +8.404
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -50735.050462 X +80217.934
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.388
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.945531 X +82.451
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.657351 X +1.834
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 41.853420 X -8.611
Correlation coefficient (r)0.676
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.457