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Question: Are you in favor of or against public funding of programs to prevent obesity?
Choices: "Strongly in favor of" "In favor of" "Neither in favor of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favor of" "In favor of"
Period:
Area:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile91.6%
2 Portugal86.2%
3 Turkiye84.6%
4 Spain81.5%
5 Bulgaria74.9%
6 Israel73.6%
7 Philippines72.5%
8 Norway72.2%
9 South Africa70.0%
10 Sweden65.8%
11 Australia65.7%
12 France 61.9%
13 Poland61.6%
14 Belgium61.2%
15 United States61.1%
16 Slovenia60.1%
17 Denmark59.3%
17 Italy59.3%
19 Finland58.3%
20 Russian Federation57.4%
21 Croatia56.7%
22 China51.9%
23 Switzerland50.9%
24 Republic of Korea50.1%
25 Lithuania49.3%
26 Slovakia49.0%
27 Germany48.9%
28 Netherlands46.4%
29 United Kingdom43.5%
30 Taiwan41.6%
31 Czech Republic40.9%
32 Japan40.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 206 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -1.579616 X +7.481
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.282
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -35828.053943 X +59525.358
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.207
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -3.877958 X +81.618
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.117
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.878650 X +1.083
Correlation coefficient (r)0.306
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -17.758031 X +24.237
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.372
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138