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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in unemployment benefits? 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 United States63.9%
2 Japan 51.8%
3 Republic of Korea44.1%
4 Germany40.3%
5 France32.8%
6 Canada25.9%
7 Australia12.1%

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 = -1.240860 X +7.174
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.419
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -5270.191106 X +52700.707
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -6.181430 X +84.292
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.279666 X +1.560
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.152
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 12.341652 X +10.995
Correlation coefficient (r)0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128