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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal 90.4%
2 Russian Federation86.0%
3 Poland85.2%
4 Bulgaria85.0%
5 Slovenia84.8%
6 Israel80.9%
7 Hungary80.1%
8 Spain79.3%
9 Latvia78.7%
10 Chile77.9%
11 Slovakia74.5%
12 Austria72.7%
13 Czech Republic71.9%
14 United Kingdom67.5%
15 France63.5%
16 Norway61.9%
17 Germany61.2%
18 Sweden59.5%
19 Philippines59.0%
20 Cyprus57.3%
21 Japan52.6%
22 Australia49.7%
23 New Zealand49.4%
24 Canada45.4%
25 United States35.3%

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 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.987426 X +7.931
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -86876.864181 X +96697.430
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.613
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.376

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -8.644819 X +85.376
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.344
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.048842 X +1.585
Correlation coefficient (r)0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 5.102557 X +8.830
Correlation coefficient (r)0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022