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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in unemployment benefits? 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:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Uruguay82.8%
2 Chile80.1%
3 Croatia69.7%
4 Russian Federation69.0%
5 United States63.9%
6 Philippines62.6%
7 Slovenia59.3%
8 Poland58.4%
9 Hungary53.6%
10 Norway52.1%
11 Tajikistan52.0%
12 Japan51.8%
13 Republic of Korea44.1%
14 Uzbekistan42.2%
15 Ireland41.4%
16 Portugal41.2%
17 Germany40.3%
18 Dominican Republic38.8%
19 Syrian Arab Republic36.9%
20 France32.8%
21 Spain29.3%
22 Israel28.2%
23 Canada25.9%
24 South Africa25.5%
25 Denmark19.8%
26 New Zealand19.2%
27 Czech Republic17.9%
28 Switzerland15.7%
29 Finland 14.0%
30 Australia12.1%
31 Latvia11.8%
32 Netherlands6.2%

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 206 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -1.654867 X +7.227
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -50684.024262 X +58302.624
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.394
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.155

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -5.604233 X +80.887
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.173993 X +1.714
Correlation coefficient (r)0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 3.595176 X +11.547
Correlation coefficient (r)0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014