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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Having children interferes too much with the freedom of parents.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation61.6%
2 Spain56.4%
3 Bulgaria55.7%
4 Japan 43.7%
5 Poland37.5%
6 Austria36.9%
7 Italy32.0%
8 Israel28.7%
9 Germany27.0%
10 Philippines23.3%
11 Hungary23.0%
12 Czech Republic22.5%
13 Slovenia18.9%
14 Netherlands13.9%
15 Canada10.9%
16 United Kingdom10.6%
17 Australia9.6%
18 Ireland9.5%
19 United States8.7%
20 New Zealand8.3%
21 Norway7.4%
22 Sweden5.1%

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

No data for 216 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -2.203341 X +7.204
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.724
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.524

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -96451.123067 X +69166.754
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.624
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.389

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -10.948001 X +82.229
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.405
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.164

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.490855 X +1.785
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.861121 X +9.537
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001