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Question: Whether the person has children to support ? 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 Germany64.5%
2 France 46.0%
3 United States44.2%
4 United Kingdom36.2%
5 Canada33.4%
6 Japan33.0%
7 Sweden26.6%
8 Australia21.1%

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 = -0.891899 X +7.110
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -14876.279504 X +58521.957
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -8.654547 X +85.012
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.465
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.216

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.122624 X +1.544
Correlation coefficient (r)0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -6.038648 X +12.991
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.333
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.111