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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the environment? 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 Republic of Korea73.4%
2 Australia58.7%
3 Japan 58.2%
4 United States56.8%
5 France54.1%
6 Canada51.8%
7 Germany37.6%

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 = -3.079771 X +8.413
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.647
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.419

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -36834.710989 X +71214.912
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.315
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 7.486742 X +77.722
Correlation coefficient (r)0.336
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.113

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.827245 X +2.471
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.618
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.382

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 44.130892 X -8.854
Correlation coefficient (r)0.796
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.634