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Question: Are you in favour of or against less government regulation of business?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany73.4%
2 Republic of Korea68.9%
3 Netherlands68.8%
4 Slovenia63.7%
5 France61.9%
6 Portugal61.2%
7 Czech Republic60.4%
8 New Zealand60.0%
9 Poland58.7%
10 Canada52.7%
11 Ireland52.6%
12 Latvia51.7%
13 Hungary51.2%
14 Australia49.3%
15 Switzerland47.2%
16 United States47.0%
17 Norway43.9%
18 Israel42.2%
19 Japan 39.6%
20 Denmark38.5%
21 Spain35.3%
22 Finland31.5%
23 Chile30.4%

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 = -0.861693 X +7.264
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.178
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -24783.265551 X +60638.550
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -3.084859 X +82.535
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.425877 X +1.780
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 14.082154 X +6.131
Correlation coefficient (r)0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127