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Question: Are you in favour of or against government financing of projects to create new jobs?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain96.5%
1 Viet Nam96.5%
3 Croatia95.7%
4 Uzbekistan95.6%
5 Hungary95.2%
6 Latvia94.6%
6 Poland94.6%
8 Ireland93.2%
9 Dominican Republic92.8%
9 Republic of Korea92.8%
11 Portugal92.5%
12 South Africa91.2%
13 Chile89.9%
14 Tajikistan89.0%
15 Slovenia88.4%
16 Israel87.6%
17 Australia86.1%
17 Russian Federation86.1%
19 Norway85.9%
20 Uruguay85.3%
21 Philippines79.6%
22 France78.1%
23 Czech Republic77.8%
24 Syrian Arab Republic76.5%
25 Netherlands76.3%
26 United States75.1%
27 New Zealand74.7%
28 Denmark72.7%
29 Canada72.2%
30 Finland 69.9%
31 Switzerland68.0%
32 Germany67.8%
33 Japan61.0%

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 = -3.990841 X +9.890
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.562
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.316

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -132872.181871 X +148836.327
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.490
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.240

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -17.487865 X +93.246
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.371
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.836174 X +1.089
Correlation coefficient (r)0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.540756 X +10.700
Correlation coefficient (r)0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002