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Question: Do you think it is wrong or not wrong if a man and a woman have sexual relations before marriage?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 United States24.6%
3 United Kingdom 13.2%
4 Italy10.2%
6 Japan8.0%
7 Germany4.8%
8 France4.2%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.056723 X +6.417
Correlation coefficient (r)0.285
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 174917.885568 X +31315.729
Correlation coefficient (r)0.781
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.610

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -22.119832 X +83.946
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.724
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.524

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.587538 X +1.435
Correlation coefficient (r)0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 22.788017 X +6.845
Correlation coefficient (r)0.467
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.218