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Question: What is needed to support a family ? 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:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile 76.3%
2 Israel67.9%
3 Spain63.0%
4 United States61.0%
5 United Kingdom57.6%
6 France57.1%
7 Germany56.4%
8 Latvia53.8%
8 Slovakia53.8%
10 Canada53.4%
11 New Zealand49.7%
12 Austria49.6%
13 Norway45.9%
14 Slovenia45.7%
15 Portugal44.0%
16 Hungary41.8%
17 Poland40.8%
18 Czech Republic39.0%
19 Australia36.1%
20 Japan33.4%
21 Sweden30.7%

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

No data for 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.092865 X +6.717
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -10840.410314 X +47712.578
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -3.164454 X +81.707
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.858571 X +1.192
Correlation coefficient (r)0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -10.067663 X +15.148
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.412
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.170