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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Having children increases people's social standing in society.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Japan40.8%
4 Germany34.1%
5 France33.8%
6 United States 33.1%
7 Canada28.2%
9 United Kingdom20.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -3.078649 X +7.604
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.717
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.514

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -46472.132064 X +67557.069
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 4.559035 X +79.836
Correlation coefficient (r)0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.699009 X +1.735
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.236
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 23.846485 X +2.744
Correlation coefficient (r)0.592
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.350