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Question: If the government had to choose between keeping down inflation or keeping down unemployment, to which do you think it should give highest priority?
Choices: "Keeping down inflation" "Keeping down unemployment"
Data: % of "Keeping down inflation"
Period:
Area:
15 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Czech Republic64.9%
2 Germany59.2%
3 Hungary54.8%
4 Japan 50.2%
5 Slovenia49.5%
6 New Zealand47.6%
7 Poland47.1%
8 Australia42.4%
9 Canada39.5%
10 Israel38.5%
11 Ireland34.0%
12 Latvia30.0%
13 Italy22.4%
14 Spain21.5%
15 France18.3%

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 23 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 0.247862 X +6.593
Correlation coefficient (r)0.078
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -23674.616442 X +51649.263
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.158
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -5.754097 X +83.078
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 0.114784 X +1.559
Correlation coefficient (r)0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 8.890515 X +8.726
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084