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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:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile83.5%
2 Ireland77.9%
3 Italy65.0%
4 United States59.3%
5 Poland59.2%
6 Israel56.6%
7 Netherlands54.8%
8 Austria54.3%
9 Japan 52.9%
10 Portugal52.0%
11 Spain50.4%
12 Canada47.6%
13 Norway47.4%
14 Germany46.6%
15 Switzerland45.4%
16 United Kingdom42.4%
17 New Zealand40.2%
18 Slovakia39.4%
19 Czech Republic38.3%
20 Australia37.3%
21 Denmark37.2%
22 Latvia36.9%
23 Sweden35.3%
24 Slovenia30.1%
25 Hungary29.3%
26 France24.0%

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

No data for 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.324999 X +6.893
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 26273.778445 X +35288.274
Correlation coefficient (r)0.143
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 2.146996 X +79.516
Correlation coefficient (r)0.094
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.202548 X +1.710
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.087
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -7.397679 X +13.217
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137