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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the environment? 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:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea73.4%
2 Spain72.3%
3 Ireland68.8%
4 Portugal67.8%
5 Slovenia66.9%
6 Hungary66.0%
7 Poland64.0%
8 Israel60.4%
9 Australia58.7%
10 Japan 58.2%
11 United States56.8%
12 Denmark56.7%
13 Latvia55.9%
14 France54.1%
15 Canada51.8%
16 Czech Republic48.5%
17 Chile44.4%
18 Finland44.3%
19 Switzerland42.1%
20 Norway40.7%
21 New Zealand38.3%
22 Germany37.6%
22 Netherlands37.6%

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

No data for 15 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -2.915419 X +8.422
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -64132.922267 X +83096.298
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.303
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -2.564515 X +82.350
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.380826 X +1.769
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 10.121866 X +7.849
Correlation coefficient (r)0.243
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059