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Question: Do you think it is wrong or not wrong if a man and a woman have sexual relations before marriage?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile31.8%
1 Israel31.8%
3 Ireland29.6%
4 Portugal22.8%
5 Poland18.1%
6 Italy17.6%
7 New Zealand17.1%
8 Hungary16.6%
9 Slovakia16.0%
10 Spain15.8%
11 Australia14.2%
12 Canada12.4%
13 Japan 11.9%
14 United States11.5%
15 Latvia9.3%
16 Netherlands7.4%
17 Norway6.2%
18 Denmark6.0%
19 France5.0%
20 Germany4.3%
21 Switzerland4.2%
22 Czech Republic3.2%
23 Austria3.0%
24 Slovenia2.8%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.216175 X +6.874
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -41702.264613 X +53140.476
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.442010 X +80.616
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.014221 X +1.478
Correlation coefficient (r)0.266
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -12.977095 X +11.406
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.412
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.170