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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - People who want children ought to get married.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia65.9%
2 Japan62.3%
3 Germany61.7%
4 United States53.0%
5 France 37.5%

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 5 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.238872 X +6.500
Correlation coefficient (r)0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 18997.529766 X +42569.585
Correlation coefficient (r)0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 6.423760 X +77.838
Correlation coefficient (r)0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.046129 X +2.201
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.605
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.366

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.744776 X +10.206
Correlation coefficient (r)0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007