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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement: "Taking part in sports develops children's character."
Choices: "Agree strongly" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Disagree strongly"
Data: % of "Agree strongly"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation74.8%
2 Philippines64.9%
3 Hungary60.5%
4 Sweden59.6%
5 Cyprus57.2%
6 Croatia56.7%
7 Poland55.2%
8 Uruguay55.0%
9 Czech Republic54.9%
10 Germany53.9%
11 Japan 53.6%
12 Bulgaria52.6%
13 Republic of Korea52.4%
14 Israel51.4%
15 Slovakia49.3%
16 Ireland48.8%
17 Chile47.1%
18 Argentina45.8%
19 Slovenia44.6%
20 South Africa44.4%
21 Taiwan42.7%
22 Latvia41.7%
23 New Zealand41.4%
24 Australia41.2%
25 United States41.0%
26 Switzerland38.3%
27 Austria36.5%
28 Mexico35.6%
29 Dominican Republic35.4%
30 France28.9%
31 United Kingdom28.4%
32 Finland23.3%
33 Belgium23.0%
34 Norway20.9%

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. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -2.148268 X +7.511
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.482
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.232

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -92426.140309 X +80261.178
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.427
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.182

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -13.761768 X +84.286
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.132877 X +1.630
Correlation coefficient (r)0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 3.596827 X +9.309
Correlation coefficient (r)0.090
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008