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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany62.1%
2 United Kingdom61.4%
3 Italy56.1%
4 United States55.7%
5 France52.5%
8 Japan32.6%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 2.218381 X +5.346
Correlation coefficient (r)0.858
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.736

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 67982.141638 X +13962.703
Correlation coefficient (r)0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -10.318924 X +87.060
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.790822 X +1.076
Correlation coefficient (r)0.387
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.150

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -15.574677 X +17.630
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.459
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.211