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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement: "Taking part in sports develops children's character."
Choices: "Agree strongly" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Disagree strongly"
Data: % of "Agree strongly"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Germany53.9%
3 Japan53.6%
6 United States41.0%
7 France28.9%
8 United Kingdom28.4%

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

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.147728 X +7.045
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.494
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.244

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -17652.472501 X +59918.758
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.845112 X +80.932
Correlation coefficient (r)0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.264812 X +2.071
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.783
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.613

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 7.807849 X +7.096
Correlation coefficient (r)0.319
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102