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Question: Do you personally think it is wrong or not wrong for a woman to have an abortion if there is a strong chance of serious defect in the baby?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan32.7%
2 United States 31.1%
3 Germany26.1%
4 United Kingdom24.5%
5 Italy23.1%
8 France8.1%

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 = -0.851770 X +6.738
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.267
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 42359.844078 X +39985.845
Correlation coefficient (r)0.220
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -5.524109 X +82.891
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.381505 X +1.834
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.547
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.299

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 15.127533 X +5.642
Correlation coefficient (r)0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130