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Question: What is needed to support a family ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
3 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Argentina 79.0%
2 Chile76.0%
3 Venezuela63.5%

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

No data for 30 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = 4.414797 X +2.836
Correlation coefficient (r)0.920
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.846

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = 78111.960543 X -45391.878
Correlation coefficient (r)0.926
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.857

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = 42.490752 X +44.619
Correlation coefficient (r)0.827
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.684

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -2.937115 X +4.009
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.743
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.552

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = 41.472256 X -24.112
Correlation coefficient (r)0.986
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.972