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Question: What is needed to support a family ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States61.0%
2 United Kingdom57.6%
3 France 57.1%
4 Germany56.4%
5 Canada53.4%
6 Australia36.1%
7 Japan33.4%
8 Sweden30.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.451821 X +6.988
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.152
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 17638.850635 X +44346.244
Correlation coefficient (r)0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -14.637589 X +88.770
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.730
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.533

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.309542 X +1.442
Correlation coefficient (r)0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -7.012453 X +14.070
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.360
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130