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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in health? 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 Poland93.9%
2 Hungary93.3%
3 Latvia92.7%
4 United States91.5%
5 New Zealand87.6%
6 Norway85.2%
7 Israel84.6%
8 Ireland83.6%
9 Czech Republic82.8%
10 Slovenia80.7%
11 Australia79.9%
12 Spain79.6%
13 Italy76.9%
14 Switzerland76.6%
15 Japan 69.0%
16 Germany59.4%
17 Canada55.6%
18 France48.9%

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 = -0.514221 X +7.200
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -21569.763461 X +65927.772
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.111
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -11.396311 X +89.785
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.521
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.271

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.197210 X +1.437
Correlation coefficient (r)0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 3.030845 X +10.295
Correlation coefficient (r)0.098
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010