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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the police and law enforcement? 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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand83.8%
2 Ireland76.7%
3 Bulgaria74.5%
4 United States74.0%
5 Poland73.5%
6 Australia67.3%
7 Hungary65.0%
8 Spain64.6%
9 Germany62.2%
9 Norway62.2%
11 Uruguay58.0%
12 Israel56.9%
13 Cyprus51.5%
14 Philippines 50.1%
15 Switzerland46.8%
16 Czech Republic43.2%
17 Latvia42.5%
18 Slovenia41.0%
19 France38.6%
20 Russian Federation38.5%
21 Canada33.8%
22 Italy32.0%
23 Japan25.8%
24 Syrian Arab Republic25.4%

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 = 0.647865 X +6.241
Correlation coefficient (r)0.175
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 35414.229445 X +22085.754
Correlation coefficient (r)0.214
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.731084 X +78.912
Correlation coefficient (r)0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.319935 X +1.848
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.572566 X +13.019
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002