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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to provide industry with the help it needs to grow?
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 Viet Nam97.7%
2 Ireland95.4%
3 Portugal95.0%
4 Slovenia93.7%
5 Latvia93.4%
5 Poland93.4%
7 Spain93.2%
8 Croatia92.3%
9 Russian Federation91.6%
10 Uzbekistan91.5%
11 Israel90.7%
12 South Africa90.5%
12 Tajikistan90.5%
14 Hungary89.9%
15 Republic of Korea88.5%
16 United States87.9%
17 New Zealand86.5%
18 Australia85.5%
19 Dominican Republic83.0%
20 Philippines82.9%
21 France82.6%
22 Chile80.0%
23 Norway77.8%
24 Switzerland77.0%
25 Czech Republic76.5%
26 Canada76.0%
27 Uruguay73.8%
28 Netherlands72.7%
29 Japan66.6%
30 Finland 63.8%
31 Germany59.4%
32 Denmark50.3%
33 Syrian Arab Republic45.0%

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 = -3.435715 X +9.386
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.545
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.297

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -89635.648413 X +111391.852
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.372
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -7.930072 X +85.042
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.036947 X +1.762
Correlation coefficient (r)0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 8.758787 X +5.634
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033