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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States33.1%
2 Japan26.9%
3 Italy25.0%
4 Germany22.1%
5 Canada19.9%
6 Australia16.1%
7 United Kingdom13.4%
8 Sweden9.4%
9 France 8.9%

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 = -2.476511 X +7.202
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.539
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.291

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 27127.067480 X +45496.654
Correlation coefficient (r)0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -12.942561 X +84.347
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.448
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.201

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.244995 X +1.795
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.532
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.283

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 6.835042 X +8.655
Correlation coefficient (r)0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032