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Question: Are you in favour of or against less government regulation of business?
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 Germany73.4%
2 Republic of Korea68.9%
3 Netherlands68.8%
4 Slovenia63.7%
5 Croatia61.9%
5 France61.9%
7 Portugal61.2%
8 Czech Republic60.4%
9 New Zealand60.0%
10 South Africa59.1%
11 Poland58.7%
12 Philippines54.1%
13 Dominican Republic53.8%
14 Canada52.7%
15 Ireland52.6%
16 Uruguay52.0%
17 Latvia51.7%
18 Hungary51.2%
19 Australia49.3%
20 Switzerland47.2%
21 Tajikistan47.0%
21 United States47.0%
23 Syrian Arab Republic45.9%
24 Norway43.9%
25 Israel42.2%
26 Japan39.6%
27 Denmark38.5%
28 Viet Nam37.8%
29 Uzbekistan36.8%
30 Spain35.3%
31 Finland 31.5%
32 Chile30.4%
33 Russian Federation28.2%

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 = 0.157222 X +6.440
Correlation coefficient (r)0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 8180.094070 X +32470.095
Correlation coefficient (r)0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 3.122170 X +76.941
Correlation coefficient (r)0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.848464 X +2.221
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.174
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 11.257064 X +7.154
Correlation coefficient (r)0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043