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Question: What is needed to support a family ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile76.3%
2 Philippines75.7%
3 Israel67.9%
4 Spain63.0%
5 Cyprus61.6%
6 United States61.0%
7 Russian Federation57.9%
8 United Kingdom57.6%
9 France57.1%
10 Germany56.4%
11 Bulgaria55.1%
12 Latvia53.8%
12 Slovakia53.8%
14 Canada53.4%
15 New Zealand49.7%
16 Austria49.6%
17 Norway45.9%
18 Slovenia45.7%
19 Portugal44.0%
20 Hungary41.8%
21 Poland40.8%
22 Czech Republic39.0%
23 Australia36.1%
24 Japan 33.4%
25 Sweden30.7%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.903685 X +7.010
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -44434.030119 X +61312.683
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -12.012241 X +85.233
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.313
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.098

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.329874 X +0.955
Correlation coefficient (r)0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -13.282463 X +16.766
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.385
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.148