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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:
16 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland79.4%
2 Slovenia78.0%
3 Ireland77.4%
4 Hungary70.9%
5 Italy70.4%
6 Spain69.8%
7 Germany67.7%
8 Israel64.6%
9 United States62.4%
10 Norway58.1%
11 Czech Republic57.7%
12 Japan 55.6%
13 Netherlands54.0%
14 New Zealand47.1%
15 Canada40.9%
16 Australia40.7%

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 = -1.773148 X +7.935
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.469
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.220

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -44680.094857 X +76474.494
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.236
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -8.299479 X +86.085
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.394
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.155

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -0.001817 X +1.587
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.001
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 0.580192 X +11.627
Correlation coefficient (r)0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000