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Question: Do you personally think it is wrong or not wrong for a woman to have an abortion if the family has a very low income and cannot afford any more children?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy65.0%
2 United States59.3%
3 Japan52.9%
4 Canada47.6%
5 Germany46.6%
6 United Kingdom42.4%
7 Australia37.3%
8 Sweden35.3%
9 France 24.0%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.490629 X +7.401
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.498
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.248

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5008.594167 X +53049.252
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.526952 X +84.354
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.170141 X +2.087
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.769
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.591

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.936128 X +11.777
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025