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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines82.7%
2 Chile65.1%
3 Ireland55.7%
4 Poland40.8%
5 United States33.1%
6 Japan 26.9%
7 Switzerland26.2%
8 Israel25.6%
9 Italy25.0%
10 Spain23.2%
11 Austria22.3%
12 Czech Republic22.1%
12 Germany22.1%
14 Bulgaria19.9%
14 Canada19.9%
16 New Zealand19.3%
17 Latvia18.8%
18 Portugal18.2%
19 Norway17.8%
20 Slovakia17.5%
21 Cyprus16.2%
22 Australia16.1%
23 Slovenia14.0%
24 Netherlands13.8%
25 United Kingdom13.4%
26 Denmark11.4%
27 Russian Federation9.8%
28 Sweden9.4%
29 France8.9%
30 Hungary8.6%

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

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.549647 X +6.751
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.176
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -16775.756417 X +47670.997
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -6.820854 X +81.162
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.262
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.788183 X +1.446
Correlation coefficient (r)0.355
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.126

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.141915 X +11.480
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.351
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.123