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Question: Are you in favour of or against less government regulation of business?
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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France64.8%
2 Israel63.1%
3 Slovenia59.5%
4 Australia59.1%
5 New Zealand57.4%
6 Ireland56.8%
7 Italy54.4%
8 Philippines53.6%
9 Syrian Arab Republic53.5%
10 Germany52.0%
11 Hungary51.3%
12 Japan51.2%
13 Canada50.9%
14 Uruguay50.2%
15 Bulgaria48.9%
16 Latvia46.4%
17 Norway 46.2%
17 Poland46.2%
19 Czech Republic45.6%
20 Switzerland44.2%
21 Spain42.6%
22 United States41.9%
23 Russian Federation40.5%
24 Cyprus19.6%

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 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 1.871103 X +5.664
Correlation coefficient (r)0.292
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 40126.199244 X +21524.794
Correlation coefficient (r)0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 8.236296 X +75.186
Correlation coefficient (r)0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.023910 X +0.664
Correlation coefficient (r)0.427
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.182

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.171835 X +12.089
Correlation coefficient (r)0.003
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000