Figure A1.

Perceiving poverty as caused by laziness correlates significantly with opposition against government involvement in poverty reduction in 48 out of 49 countries. Zero-order correlations.

Notes. N = 59,144. Data is from the World Values Survey 1994–1999 and the variables are e131 (“Why are people in need? Because of laziness and lack of willpower or because of an unfair society?”) and e133 (“How much is the government doing against poverty? Too much, about the right amount or too little?”) in the European and World Values Surveys four-wave integrated data file, 1981–2004. Subjects in the categories “other answers” have been deleted from the analysis. All correlations except for the Dominican Republic and Venezuela are significant at the .001-level. The correlation for the Dominican Republic is significant at the .05-level, while the p-value for Venezuela is p = .67.