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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in unemployment benefits? 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:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria68.4%
2 Russian Federation65.8%
3 Latvia63.2%
4 Spain53.5%
5 Slovenia49.8%
6 Italy48.6%
7 Ireland47.4%
8 Poland45.7%
9 Israel45.5%
10 Cyprus45.1%
11 Switzerland42.7%
12 Germany37.6%
13 United States35.9%
14 Japan35.5%
15 Hungary34.2%
16 Uruguay 28.3%
17 Syrian Arab Republic22.9%
18 France20.5%
19 Czech Republic19.7%
20 Norway19.6%
21 Canada16.6%
22 Australia12.4%
23 New Zealand10.3%

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 215 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -2.190510 X +7.471
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.625
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.391

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -56311.424129 X +64912.208
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.366
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.134

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -9.002603 X +83.050
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.407
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.439846 X +1.807
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 5.698813 X +10.455
Correlation coefficient (r)0.170
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029