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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to provide industry with the help it needs to grow?
Choices: "Definately should be" "Probably should be" "Probably should not be" "Definately should not be"
Data: % of "Definately should be" "Probably should be"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland95.4%
2 Portugal95.0%
3 Slovenia93.7%
4 Latvia93.4%
4 Poland93.4%
6 Spain93.2%
7 Israel90.7%
8 Hungary89.9%
9 Republic of Korea88.5%
10 United States87.9%
11 New Zealand86.5%
12 Australia85.5%
13 France82.6%
14 Chile80.0%
15 Norway77.8%
16 Switzerland77.0%
17 Czech Republic76.5%
18 Canada76.0%
19 Netherlands72.7%
20 Japan 66.6%
21 Finland63.8%
22 Germany59.4%
23 Denmark50.3%

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

No data for 15 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -2.370796 X +8.752
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.502
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.252

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -53395.555020 X +91362.384
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -6.287741 X +86.067
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.304
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.187406 X +1.407
Correlation coefficient (r)0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 3.872501 X +10.259
Correlation coefficient (r)0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010