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Question: Generally, how would you describe taxes in the country today for those with high incomes? Taxes are...
Choices: "much too high" "too high" "about right" "too low" "much too low"
Data: % of "much too high" "too high"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland54.0%
2 Philippines47.9%
3 Israel47.0%
4 Poland42.2%
5 Uruguay36.9%
6 Canada32.3%
7 France31.8%
8 Italy28.9%
9 New Zealand27.5%
10 Russian Federation27.3%
11 Norway24.6%
12 Japan24.2%
13 Australia22.1%
14 Spain20.6%
15 Hungary20.2%
16 Latvia 18.9%
17 Switzerland18.2%
18 United States18.1%
19 Czech Republic17.2%
20 Germany15.1%
21 Slovenia12.0%
22 Bulgaria11.0%
23 Cyprus9.9%
24 Syrian Arab Republic8.1%

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 = 0.519778 X +6.459
Correlation coefficient (r)0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 23133.600785 X +35410.776
Correlation coefficient (r)0.105
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.162619 X +78.749
Correlation coefficient (r)0.067
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.002830 X +1.418
Correlation coefficient (r)0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -5.763795 X +13.654
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015