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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in health? 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 Australia90.3%
2 United States82.1%
3 Republic of Korea81.2%
4 Canada77.1%
5 Germany65.7%
6 Japan 64.7%
7 France59.6%

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 = 1.173296 X +5.821
Correlation coefficient (r)0.261
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 58079.123068 X +7458.572
Correlation coefficient (r)0.524
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.275

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -3.581424 X +84.564
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.170
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.796059 X +2.044
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.285
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 12.058760 X +6.801
Correlation coefficient (r)0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053