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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Having children increases people's social standing in society.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Iceland66.9%
2 Latvia62.6%
3 Poland60.6%
4 Turkiye54.5%
5 Slovakia47.6%
6 Czech Republic47.0%
7 Sweden46.5%
8 Lithuania45.8%
9 Israel45.7%
10 Denmark41.3%
11 Japan40.8%
12 Norway40.1%
13 Belgium39.8%
14 Hungary38.0%
15 Austria37.9%
15 Republic of Korea37.9%
17 Netherlands37.1%
18 Slovenia35.7%
19 Portugal35.5%
20 Germany34.1%
21 France33.8%
22 Finland33.4%
23 United States33.1%
24 Ireland32.6%
25 Switzerland30.3%
26 Canada28.2%
27 Chile 26.9%
28 Mexico25.3%
29 Australia23.8%
30 United Kingdom20.5%

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 = -0.648873 X +6.993
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -43057.994400 X +63243.675
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -7.761481 X +82.955
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.229
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.372037 X +1.473
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 4.375353 X +8.914
Correlation coefficient (r)0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015