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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - It is the responsibility of the government to reduce the differences in income between people with high incomes and those with low incomes
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria87.2%
2 Poland79.4%
3 Slovenia78.0%
4 Ireland77.4%
5 Hungary70.9%
6 Italy70.4%
7 Spain69.8%
8 Germany67.7%
9 Israel64.6%
10 United States62.4%
11 Norway58.1%
12 Czech Republic57.7%
13 Japan55.6%
14 Netherlands54.0%
15 Philippines 52.5%
16 Russian Federation52.0%
17 New Zealand47.1%
18 Canada40.9%
19 Australia40.7%
20 Uruguay31.7%

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

No data for 218 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.212252 X +7.365
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.282
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -9093.678877 X +46706.955
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.370163 X +81.513
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.453984 X +1.921
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -8.704047 X +17.801
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054