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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in health? Remember that if you say "much more", it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Choices: "Spend much more" "Spend more" "Spend the same as now" "Spend less" "Spend much less"
Data: % of "Spend much more" "Spend more"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic97.6%
2 Chile95.6%
3 Hungary93.5%
3 Portugal93.5%
5 Ireland92.9%
6 Poland92.2%
7 Uzbekistan91.5%
8 Viet Nam91.0%
9 Australia90.3%
10 Israel90.0%
11 South Africa89.4%
12 Croatia89.2%
12 Russian Federation89.2%
14 Philippines88.1%
15 Latvia87.2%
16 Spain87.1%
17 Norway85.6%
18 New Zealand83.8%
19 United States82.1%
20 Republic of Korea81.2%
21 Slovenia81.0%
22 Denmark80.9%
23 Finland 80.7%
24 Uruguay80.2%
25 Switzerland79.9%
26 Canada77.1%
27 Czech Republic72.3%
28 Netherlands70.3%
29 Germany65.7%
30 Japan64.7%
31 France59.6%
32 Tajikistan57.1%
33 Syrian Arab Republic47.9%

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 = -1.358025 X +7.649
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -42042.557556 X +71567.758
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -3.818577 X +81.652
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.096
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.985106 X +2.601
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.207
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 6.254458 X +7.706
Correlation coefficient (r)0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014