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Question: Indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements. "People who are better off should help friends who are less well off"
Choices: "Agree strongly" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Disagree strongly"
Data: % of "Agree strongly" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Brazil94.1%
2 Philippines 86.7%
3 Austria84.2%
4 Chile79.3%
5 Slovenia77.8%
6 South Africa76.1%
7 Poland75.5%
8 Spain73.0%
9 Israel72.6%
10 Switzerland69.3%
11 Hungary63.7%
12 United States59.0%
13 Norway58.6%
14 Italy57.6%
15 Russian Federation56.9%
16 Cyprus55.8%
17 Germany54.3%
18 Canada50.9%
19 Czech Republic49.4%
20 Australia47.0%
21 Finland45.0%
22 Latvia43.5%
23 Denmark38.6%
24 France35.0%
25 United Kingdom34.5%
26 New Zealand33.5%
27 Japan20.4%

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 211 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.978377 X +7.246
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -45970.499425 X +67130.862
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -9.997592 X +85.240
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.403
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.618419 X +1.268
Correlation coefficient (r)0.303
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -4.546371 X +15.185
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023