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Question: Are you in favour of or against government financing of projects to create new jobs?
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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia95.7%
2 Spain95.2%
3 Hungary93.0%
4 Poland92.7%
5 Bulgaria92.6%
6 Ireland91.5%
7 Italy90.4%
8 Slovenia87.3%
9 Israel87.0%
10 Philippines85.9%
11 Norway85.7%
12 United States85.3%
13 Russian Federation85.2%
14 Australia84.2%
15 Germany 81.4%
16 Syrian Arab Republic77.0%
17 France76.3%
18 Cyprus74.5%
19 Czech Republic74.0%
20 Uruguay73.8%
21 Japan71.4%
22 Canada70.6%
23 Switzerland69.3%
24 New Zealand54.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -2.185906 X +8.400
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -53895.096095 X +85983.855
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -12.597120 X +89.667
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.319
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.193627 X +1.835
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.782133 X +11.532
Correlation coefficient (r)0.013
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000