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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye78.6%
2 Chile76.0%
3 Latvia63.6%
4 Germany62.1%
5 United Kingdom61.4%
6 Belgium60.3%
7 Switzerland59.8%
8 Austria59.4%
9 Israel58.3%
10 Spain57.7%
11 Italy56.1%
12 United States55.7%
13 Iceland55.1%
14 France52.5%
15 Slovakia52.3%
16 Republic of Korea44.6%
17 Hungary43.9%
18 Lithuania43.7%
19 Portugal43.3%
20 Australia40.5%
21 Czech Republic37.9%
22 New Zealand36.7%
23 Slovenia34.2%
24 Japan 32.6%
25 Poland31.1%
26 Norway30.3%
27 Finland28.7%
28 Estonia26.0%
29 Sweden24.2%
30 Denmark22.5%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.579307 X +7.439
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.411
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.169

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -17552.277960 X +53672.753
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.137184 X +81.655
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.533241 X +1.258
Correlation coefficient (r)0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.623724 X +14.684
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.312
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097