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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in fighting unemployment?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark65.4%
2 Ireland65.3%
3 Norway52.6%
4 Australia52.5%
5 Switzerland51.1%
6 New Zealand51.0%
7 Canada34.6%
8 Spain33.7%
9 United States29.6%
10 United Kingdom29.5%
11 Finland21.9%
12 Netherlands20.8%
13 Poland20.2%
14 France14.8%
14 Slovenia14.8%
16 Czech Republic13.7%
17 Chile13.5%
18 Latvia12.9%
19 Israel12.8%
20 Sweden9.4%
21 Japan8.9%
22 Portugal7.5%
23 Germany6.4%
24 Hungary5.9%
25 Republic of Korea 5.6%

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 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.633564 X +6.418
Correlation coefficient (r)0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 87876.631671 X +25276.333
Correlation coefficient (r)0.724
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.524

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 3.905952 X +79.974
Correlation coefficient (r)0.305
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.093

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.007807 X +1.566
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -8.511088 X +15.476
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.348
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.121