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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:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal90.4%
2 Poland85.2%
3 Slovenia84.8%
4 Israel80.9%
5 Hungary80.1%
6 Spain79.3%
7 Latvia78.7%
8 Chile77.9%
9 Slovakia74.5%
10 Austria72.7%
11 Czech Republic71.9%
12 United Kingdom67.5%
13 France63.5%
14 Norway61.9%
15 Germany61.2%
16 Sweden59.5%
17 Japan52.6%
18 Australia49.7%
19 New Zealand 49.4%
20 Canada45.4%
21 United States35.3%

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

No data for 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -1.640865 X +7.842
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.506
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.256

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -90482.990599 X +102896.765
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.687
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.472

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -5.805953 X +84.371
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.323
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.222080 X +1.449
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -2.175467 X +14.207
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008