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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in education? Remember that if you say "much more", it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Choices: "Spend much more" "Spend more" "Spend the same as now" "Spend less" "Spend much less"
Data: % of "Spend much more" "Spend more"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile95.6%
2 Israel91.8%
3 Ireland87.9%
4 Spain86.8%
5 Portugal85.1%
6 Germany82.4%
7 Slovenia80.2%
8 Australia79.7%
9 Poland 79.5%
10 Latvia78.8%
11 Hungary73.3%
12 United States72.6%
13 Netherlands72.3%
14 Republic of Korea71.1%
15 New Zealand69.7%
16 Canada66.4%
17 Czech Republic64.3%
18 Denmark62.2%
18 Norway62.2%
20 France58.7%
21 Switzerland52.9%
22 Japan52.8%
23 Finland43.5%

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 15 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1.623408 X +7.997
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -55069.820987 X +87795.516
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -4.653970 X +84.318
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.726470 X +1.032
Correlation coefficient (r)0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -10.919917 X +21.345
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.304
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092