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Question: Do you think it is wrong or not wrong if a man and a woman have sexual relations in their early teens, say under 16 years old?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong"
Period:
Area:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland83.6%
2 Poland77.3%
3 New Zealand70.5%
4 Israel66.8%
5 United States66.6%
6 Australia60.7%
7 Japan 60.1%
8 Czech Republic59.4%
9 Italy58.1%
10 Spain55.8%
11 Canada55.3%
11 Norway55.3%
13 Hungary50.5%
14 Netherlands45.2%
15 Slovenia44.2%
16 Austria35.7%
17 Switzerland32.3%
18 Germany31.8%

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

No data for 20 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -0.231693 X +6.909
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 6447.021891 X +49104.648
Correlation coefficient (r)0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -3.559089 X +83.023
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.172
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.494583 X +1.335
Correlation coefficient (r)0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -1.515619 X +10.544
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.080
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006