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Question: All in all, what do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have?
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Data: % of 3 or more
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel86.9%
2 Iceland73.0%
3 Ireland66.6%
4 Japan58.2%
5 Republic of Korea51.1%
6 Norway50.7%
7 Poland47.5%
8 Australia44.9%
9 Chile44.2%
9 Finland 44.2%
11 Latvia42.7%
12 Canada42.0%
13 France38.7%
13 Slovenia38.7%
15 Denmark37.2%
16 Lithuania36.0%
17 Netherlands34.8%
18 Mexico34.5%
19 Slovakia34.4%
20 Belgium27.4%
21 Portugal24.7%
22 Austria23.6%
23 Hungary22.6%
24 Germany22.1%
25 Czech Republic17.1%

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

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.873831 X +6.405
Correlation coefficient (r)0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 65729.992301 X +16777.774
Correlation coefficient (r)0.426
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 8.824783 X +76.183
Correlation coefficient (r)0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.878231 X +1.245
Correlation coefficient (r)0.399
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.159

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.197836 X +11.431
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003