Tweet
Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in culture and the arts? Remember that if you say "much more", it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Choices: "Spend much more" "Spend more" "Spend the same as now" "Spend less" "Spend much less"
Data: % of "Spend much more" "Spend more"
Period:
Area:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia57.5%
2 Poland52.3%
3 Israel51.1%
4 Slovenia50.2%
5 Hungary49.0%
6 Spain46.7%
7 Italy44.0%
8 Japan 35.9%
9 Czech Republic28.4%
10 Canada23.2%
11 Ireland22.7%
12 France18.5%
13 Germany18.2%
14 Switzerland14.7%
15 New Zealand13.4%
16 Australia12.6%
17 Norway8.2%
18 United States6.5%

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 20 countries.
Source
ISSP 1996

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -1.871678 X +7.369
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.688
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.473
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -107260.576192 X +81848.847
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.737
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.543
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -6.490511 X +82.778
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.209915 X +1.528
Correlation coefficient (r)0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.909894 X +12.409
Correlation coefficient (r)0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002