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Question: Are you in favour of or against cuts in government spending?
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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia95.3%
2 Croatia90.6%
3 France88.4%
4 Hungary87.4%
4 Poland87.4%
6 Portugal84.0%
7 Uzbekistan83.8%
8 Slovenia81.4%
9 Japan79.7%
10 Israel77.8%
11 Germany76.0%
12 Philippines75.1%
13 Dominican Republic74.8%
14 Chile69.4%
15 Tajikistan68.8%
16 Canada68.6%
17 Netherlands66.7%
18 Viet Nam63.4%
19 Uruguay63.3%
20 New Zealand63.0%
21 South Africa62.8%
22 Norway 61.2%
23 Czech Republic60.1%
24 Spain56.0%
25 Switzerland55.7%
26 Republic of Korea55.2%
27 Denmark45.2%
28 Australia44.3%
29 Syrian Arab Republic44.2%
30 Ireland42.7%
31 Russian Federation40.2%
32 United States38.1%
33 Finland29.6%

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

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -1.586449 X +7.579
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.373
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.139

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -76851.588187 X +87911.748
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.473
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.224

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -3.141212 X +80.593
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.113
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.384086 X +1.539
Correlation coefficient (r)0.116
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -2.100507 X +14.227
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003