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Question: Generally, how would you describe taxes in the country today for those with high incomes? Taxes are...
Choices: "much too high" "too high" "about right" "too low" "much too low"
Data: % of "too low" "much too low"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea81.1%
2 Hungary65.5%
3 Germany62.9%
4 Japan61.3%
5 Latvia60.3%
6 Slovenia59.3%
7 Portugal57.5%
8 Poland55.1%
9 Ireland51.3%
10 Netherlands51.1%
11 Spain46.8%
12 France46.5%
13 Finland45.1%
14 Norway44.3%
15 Chile40.7%
16 Canada39.9%
17 Switzerland39.5%
18 Czech Republic38.6%
19 Israel37.3%
20 United States 31.8%
21 Australia28.5%
22 Denmark27.8%
23 New Zealand14.7%

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 = -2.529984 X +8.014
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.637
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.406

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -63158.248829 X +77661.218
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -2.640839 X +82.187
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.152
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1.002235 X +2.033
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.420
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 19.160663 X +4.363
Correlation coefficient (r)0.590
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.348