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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:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia97.0%
2 Turkiye83.3%
3 Kenya77.3%
4 Sri Lanka75.0%
5 South Africa66.1%
6 Tanzania64.3%
7 Dominican Republic59.1%
8 Philippines54.1%
9 Israel39.2%
10 Mexico39.1%
11 Taiwan34.0%
12 Venezuela32.1%
13 Ukraine29.7%
14 Chile29.6%
15 Republic of Korea27.6%
16 United States24.6%
17 Russian Federation16.9%
18 Ireland15.9%
19 Cyprus14.0%
20 Portugal13.5%
21 United Kingdom13.2%
22 Slovakia13.1%
23 New Zealand12.5%
24 Uruguay11.6%
25 Spain10.7%
26 Italy10.2%
26 Latvia10.2%
28 Poland9.7%
29 Australia9.5%
30 Croatia8.5%
31 Japan 8.0%
32 Hungary7.5%
33 Finland6.7%
34 Netherlands6.5%
35 Norway5.3%
35 Slovenia5.3%
37 Switzerland5.0%
38 Germany4.8%
39 France4.2%
40 Denmark4.1%
41 Austria3.5%
42 Czech Republic2.8%
43 Belgium2.7%
44 Sweden2.6%

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 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -2.525278 X +6.911
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.720
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.518

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -59691.445055 X +48685.468
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.560
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.314

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -16.617499 X +81.294
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.690
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.476

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 1.552578 X +1.417
Correlation coefficient (r)0.605
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.366

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -3.884532 X +11.115
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036