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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to keep prices under control?
Choices: "Definately should be" "Probably should be" "Probably should not be" "Definately should not be"
Data: % of "Definately should be" "Probably should be"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation 98.0%
2 Tajikistan97.4%
3 Dominican Republic96.7%
3 Republic of Korea96.7%
5 Portugal96.3%
6 Philippines95.8%
7 Viet Nam93.8%
8 South Africa93.1%
9 Chile93.0%
9 Ireland93.0%
11 Uzbekistan92.3%
12 Japan92.2%
13 Spain91.0%
14 Norway89.5%
15 Israel87.6%
16 Croatia87.0%
16 Hungary87.0%
18 Australia86.8%
19 Slovenia86.2%
20 United States85.2%
21 Latvia83.6%
22 France82.9%
23 Switzerland82.5%
24 Netherlands79.6%
25 Finland78.7%
26 Germany78.4%
27 Poland77.9%
28 Denmark77.4%
29 Syrian Arab Republic77.3%
30 Uruguay77.0%
31 New Zealand76.9%
32 Canada70.2%
33 Czech Republic67.4%

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 = -5.716859 X +11.470
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.650
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.423

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -112697.507641 X +134205.832
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.336
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.113

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -17.272417 X +93.427
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.299
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.456124 X +0.536
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.487071 X +12.419
Correlation coefficient (r)0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000