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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - It is the responsibility of the government to reduce the differences in income between people with high incomes and those with low incomes
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy86.7%
2 France77.2%
3 Republic of Korea75.1%
4 Germany65.5%
5 United Kingdom60.6%
6 Sweden58.0%
7 Japan 54.4%
8 Australia51.3%
9 United States32.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.254353 X +7.519
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.405
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.164

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -62403.595288 X +88398.643
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.807
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.651

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 6.291862 X +77.986
Correlation coefficient (r)0.486
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.236

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.689092 X +1.899
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.380
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.337889 X +15.669
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004