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Question: Do you think it is wrong or not wrong if a man and a woman have sexual relations in their early teens, say under 16 years old?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong"
Period:
Area:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States 66.6%
3 Japan60.1%
4 Italy58.1%
5 Canada55.3%
6 Germany31.8%

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

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.707490 X +6.930
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.274
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 27197.543689 X +37217.776
Correlation coefficient (r)0.193
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.799351 X +82.238
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.068526 X +1.355
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 12.200717 X +3.303
Correlation coefficient (r)0.417
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.174