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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in fighting unemployment?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark65.4%
2 Ireland65.3%
3 Norway52.6%
4 Australia52.5%
5 Switzerland51.1%
6 New Zealand51.0%
7 Uruguay36.9%
8 Canada34.6%
9 Spain33.7%
10 United States29.6%
11 United Kingdom29.5%
12 Philippines26.8%
13 Venezuela26.5%
14 Finland 21.9%
15 Netherlands20.8%
16 Poland20.2%
17 France14.8%
17 Slovenia14.8%
19 Czech Republic13.7%
20 Chile13.5%
21 Latvia12.9%
22 Dominican Republic12.8%
22 Israel12.8%
24 Taiwan11.5%
25 South Africa10.5%
26 Russian Federation9.7%
27 Sweden9.4%
28 Japan8.9%
29 Portugal7.5%
30 Germany6.4%
31 Hungary5.9%
32 Republic of Korea5.6%
33 Croatia5.1%

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 data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.011060 X +6.106
Correlation coefficient (r)0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 92681.299544 X +17322.398
Correlation coefficient (r)0.639
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.408

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 7.783709 X +77.290
Correlation coefficient (r)0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.094940 X +1.692
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -9.813521 X +15.732
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084