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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:
35 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain96.0%
2 Georgia95.8%
3 Latvia95.0%
4 Croatia94.5%
5 Philippines90.3%
6 Venezuela89.8%
7 Taiwan89.6%
8 Thailand88.9%
9 Hungary88.8%
9 Suriname88.8%
11 Norway87.9%
12 South Africa87.0%
13 New Zealand86.5%
14 Australia86.4%
15 United Kingdom85.9%
16 Belgium85.5%
17 Republic of Korea85.2%
18 India85.1%
18 Israel85.1%
20 United States84.6%
21 Chile82.5%
22 Slovenia82.4%
23 France81.6%
24 Slovakia80.0%
25 Iceland79.0%
26 Switzerland78.2%
27 Denmark77.4%
28 Lithuania77.1%
29 Finland 75.9%
30 Russian Federation71.8%
31 Turkiye71.2%
32 Czech Republic69.8%
32 Germany69.8%
34 Sweden67.4%
35 Japan67.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 203 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -2.697527 X +8.655
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = -88174.193878 X +108256.535
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -16.920843 X +92.421
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.857297 X +1.003
Correlation coefficient (r)0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -7.544124 X +20.119
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008