In an international survey done in 1977-78, the percentage of young people in various nations who responded that the thing about their country of which they were most proud was its "social welfare" was 60 % in Sweden, 45 % in the UK, and 30 % in West Germany.
西元一九七七∼七八年，一項國際性調查﹘ ﹘各國青年認為自己國家最值得驕傲的事，回答「社會福利」者，瑞典有六十％，英國四十五％，西德三十％。