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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Watching children grow up is life's greatest joy.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile 98.4%
2 Mexico96.8%
3 Portugal95.9%
4 Hungary95.2%
5 Slovenia94.2%
6 Denmark93.1%
7 Poland92.2%
8 Austria91.9%
9 Israel91.4%
10 Slovakia91.3%
11 Spain90.9%
12 Sweden90.3%
13 France90.0%
14 Czech Republic89.7%
15 Switzerland89.2%
16 Latvia87.8%
17 Norway87.0%
18 Japan86.2%
19 Belgium86.1%
20 Germany86.0%
21 United States85.5%
22 Ireland85.4%
23 Australia83.2%
24 Finland81.4%
25 United Kingdom81.0%
26 Netherlands80.8%
27 New Zealand80.2%

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

No data for 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -3.865198 X +10.225
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.419
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -245024.181102 X +264831.467
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.477
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -28.639879 X +105.569
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.395
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.156

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.438906 X +1.244
Correlation coefficient (r)0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -16.354759 X +24.531
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.288
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.083