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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the military and defence? 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 Canada43.4%
2 Republic of Korea37.4%
3 United States31.0%
4 Australia25.2%
5 Japan 20.5%
6 Germany11.7%
7 France8.7%

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 = -0.302066 X +6.771
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 8813.544745 X +48421.243
Correlation coefficient (r)0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.632342 X +82.315
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.089
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.422758 X +1.813
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.583
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.340

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 16.943919 X +11.465
Correlation coefficient (r)0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137