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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the police and law enforcement? 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 Australia67.3%
2 Republic of Korea63.7%
3 United States62.9%
4 Canada53.9%
5 Germany44.5%
6 France34.1%
7 Japan 27.6%

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 = 1.071743 X +6.152
Correlation coefficient (r)0.330
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.109

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 41044.969748 X +29904.115
Correlation coefficient (r)0.514
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.264

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -5.294479 X +84.577
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.348
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.121

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.542728 X +1.726
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.269
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 11.639466 X +9.885
Correlation coefficient (r)0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095