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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Having children interferes too much with the freedom of parents.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 France41.3%
3 Japan33.4%
4 Germany24.1%
5 United States15.3%
6 Canada10.7%
8 United Kingdom8.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.405848 X +6.940
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.626
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.392

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -58908.022283 X +65928.838
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 7.356062 X +79.644
Correlation coefficient (r)0.435
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.189

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.307951 X +1.445
Correlation coefficient (r)0.198
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 2.518963 X +9.754
Correlation coefficient (r)0.120
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014