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Question: Are you in favour of or against government support for industry to develop new products and technology?
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 Australia90.7%
2 United Kingdom87.1%
3 Japan 84.8%
4 France84.0%
5 Republic of Korea81.0%
6 United States79.6%
7 Germany78.3%
8 Sweden66.1%

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 = -2.164720 X +8.533
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -32437.392684 X +77642.881
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 5.071804 X +77.732
Correlation coefficient (r)0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.293460 X +1.737
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -15.698007 X +27.936
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038