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Question: Do you think it is wrong or not wrong if a man and a woman have sexual relations in their early teens, say under 16 years old?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong"
Period:
Area:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States66.6%
2 Australia60.7%
3 Japan60.1%
4 Italy58.1%
5 Canada55.3%
6 Germany 31.8%

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

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.311630 X +6.804
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 38266.572657 X +30935.730
Correlation coefficient (r)0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -2.372478 X +83.032
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.086682 X +1.535
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 12.585758 X +3.180
Correlation coefficient (r)0.435
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.189