The Norwegians are most happy about their welfare system

We have asked our panel members in the Nordics and Ireland what they think about their welfare system. It turns out the majority in all the countries, except for Norway, believe their welfare system could be better.

3 percent in Denmark, 4 percent in Sweden and Finland and 8 percent in Ireland think that the welfare system in their country is excellent. In Norway, however, 18 percent have chosen this option, which means nearly 1/5 is more than satisfied with the welfare system. Quite many also rate their welfare system as "good", which is the most positive option after "excellent". This goes for half of the Norwegian panel members, whereas the same figure for the other countries is between 22 and 27 percent.

The third option "could be better" is chosen by half of the Finnish and Danish members, and more than 40 percent of the Swedish and Irish members. In other words, a large group of people believe improvements can be made in their country's specific welfare system. Due to the many Norwegians that have chosen either "good" or "excellent", only 29 percent think the welfare system could be better in Norway.

The negative options include rating the welfare system as "bad" or "horrible". Respectively, 2 and 1 percent of the Norwegians panel members have chosen these options, whereas the same goes for 25 percent of the Swedish panel members - 17 percent believe their welfare system to be bad and 9 percent say it is horrible. The same tendency is seen among the two other Nordic countries as 19 percent of the Danish panel members and 18 percent of the Finnish panel members have answered "bad" or "horrible". In Ireland 13 percent think the welfare system is bad and 10 percent think it is horrible.