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Question: Do you personally think it is wrong or not wrong for a woman to have an abortion if the family has a very low income and cannot afford any more children?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile83.2%
2 Ireland76.7%
3 Mexico74.3%
4 Poland65.1%
5 Germany62.5%
6 Israel61.6%
7 United States59.1%
8 Italy58.7%
9 Austria53.6%
10 Netherlands53.4%
11 Spain51.7%
12 Japan 51.4%
13 United Kingdom50.4%
14 Portugal48.6%
15 Latvia47.4%
16 Republic of Korea47.2%
17 Slovakia45.4%
18 Finland45.0%
19 Belgium44.8%
20 Switzerland44.3%
21 New Zealand40.4%
22 Norway40.3%
23 Slovenia37.3%
24 Australia34.9%
25 Czech Republic34.7%
26 Denmark31.7%
27 Hungary30.9%
28 Sweden29.3%
29 France21.6%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 9 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.632798 X +7.058
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.193
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -14437.909281 X +53085.841
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -6.077233 X +83.298
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.041186 X +1.573
Correlation coefficient (r)0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -8.021215 X +14.120
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103