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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Having children interferes too much with the freedom of parents.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea53.6%
2 Portugal49.6%
3 Turkiye48.5%
4 Austria 45.1%
5 France41.3%
6 Mexico34.4%
7 Japan33.4%
8 Czech Republic32.8%
9 Chile31.5%
10 Poland31.3%
11 Switzerland28.9%
12 Hungary28.5%
13 Israel28.2%
14 Latvia25.9%
15 Belgium25.4%
16 Germany24.1%
17 Lithuania22.5%
18 Denmark16.8%
19 United States15.3%
20 Slovakia15.2%
21 Slovenia13.5%
22 Netherlands11.5%
23 Canada10.7%
24 Australia9.8%
25 Norway9.5%
26 United Kingdom8.9%
27 Iceland8.8%
28 Ireland8.7%
29 Finland6.8%
30 Sweden5.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.751687 X +7.403
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.664
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.441

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -99469.493737 X +70328.469
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.529
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.280

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -5.070135 X +81.120
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.350291 X +1.705
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.097849 X +11.148
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005