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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Watching children grow up is life's greatest joy.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden90.3%
2 France 90.0%
3 Japan86.2%
4 Germany86.0%
5 United States85.5%
6 Australia83.2%
7 United Kingdom81.0%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.493366 X +5.467
Correlation coefficient (r)0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -58691.886753 X +103029.792
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.137
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 18.683710 X +65.512
Correlation coefficient (r)0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.550180 X +0.281
Correlation coefficient (r)0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 28.006338 X -13.355
Correlation coefficient (r)0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127