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Question: Thinking about restrictions on public activity in [SURVEY PUBLIC] over the course of the coronavirus outbreak, do you think there should have been more restrictions, fewer restrictions, or were the restrictions about right?
Choices: "More restrictions" "Fewer restrictions" "Restrictions were about right"
Data: % of "Fewer restrictions"
Period:
Area:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Greece44.0%
2 United States24.2%
3 Belgium23.9%
4 France23.8%
5 Germany23.1%
6 Netherlands19.9%
7 Singapore19.1%
8 Italy18.5%
9 Republic of Korea16.5%
10 Canada16.0%
11 Australia15.7%
12 Spain14.4%
13 United Kingdom11.6%
14 New Zealand9.8%
15 Japan 9.2%
16 Sweden6.4%
17 Taiwan4.4%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 221 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes & Trends" Spring 2021. For the United States, "American Trends Panel Wave 82" February 2-7, 2021.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -1.484146 X +6.919
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -15018.662549 X +50305.240
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -10.820701 X +84.028
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.498
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.248

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 0.099177 X +1.441
Correlation coefficient (r)0.033
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -14.268009 X +12.831
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084