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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - Private enterprise is the best way to solve the country's economic problems.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
16 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy65.3%
2 Germany65.2%
3 Czech Republic63.2%
4 Israel62.6%
5 Ireland58.0%
6 Spain57.3%
7 Slovenia55.7%
8 Canada54.7%
9 Australia53.5%
10 New Zealand53.2%
11 Norway45.4%
12 Poland44.6%
13 Netherlands41.7%
14 United States41.5%
15 Hungary29.6%
16 Japan 11.9%

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

No data for 22 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 1.548567 X +6.055
Correlation coefficient (r)0.472
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.223

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 15793.320463 X +40767.216
Correlation coefficient (r)0.096
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 1.593086 X +80.125
Correlation coefficient (r)0.087
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 0.668789 X +1.250
Correlation coefficient (r)0.252
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -13.597110 X +18.815
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.520
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.270