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Question: Do you think it is wrong or not wrong if a man and a woman have sexual relations before marriage?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy17.6%
2 Australia14.2%
3 Canada12.4%
4 Japan11.9%
5 United States11.5%
6 France 5.0%
7 Germany4.3%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.879559 X +6.724
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1719.096228 X +50559.574
Correlation coefficient (r)0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 10.994232 X +80.592
Correlation coefficient (r)0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.701668 X +1.833
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.600
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.360

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -10.874829 X +11.279
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026