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Question: Are you in favour of or against government financing of projects to create new jobs?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia86.4%
2 United Kingdom85.9%
3 Republic of Korea85.2%
4 United States84.6%
5 France81.6%
6 Germany69.8%
7 Sweden67.4%
8 Japan 67.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.213258 X +6.938
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 16243.067993 X +38467.756
Correlation coefficient (r)0.117
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -7.744062 X +87.944
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.303
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.321353 X +1.750
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.094
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 8.486258 X +8.486
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015