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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Watching children grow up is life's greatest joy.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile98.4%
2 Cyprus97.0%
3 Mexico96.8%
3 Russian Federation96.8%
5 Brazil96.2%
6 Bulgaria96.0%
7 Portugal95.9%
8 Taiwan95.6%
9 Hungary95.2%
10 Slovenia94.2%
11 Philippines93.7%
12 Denmark93.1%
13 Poland92.2%
14 Austria91.9%
15 Israel91.4%
16 Slovakia91.3%
17 Spain90.9%
18 Sweden90.3%
19 France90.0%
20 Czech Republic89.7%
21 Switzerland89.2%
22 Latvia87.8%
23 Norway87.0%
24 Japan 86.2%
25 Belgium86.1%
26 Germany86.0%
27 United States85.5%
28 Ireland85.4%
29 Australia83.2%
30 Finland81.4%
31 United Kingdom81.0%
32 Netherlands80.8%
33 New Zealand80.2%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -5.722389 X +11.810
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.569
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.324

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -284252.231125 X +298010.588
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -44.400571 X +118.937
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.510
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.260

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.403382 X +1.291
Correlation coefficient (r)0.061
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -16.810394 X +24.817
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.229
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052