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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:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel82.5%
2 Ireland67.7%
3 Japan 62.2%
4 Norway51.2%
5 Australia44.0%
5 Poland44.0%
7 Netherlands42.4%
8 New Zealand42.2%
9 Canada38.0%
10 Hungary36.9%
11 Slovenia36.0%
12 Switzerland35.4%
13 Spain32.3%
14 Italy28.0%
15 Austria23.7%
16 United States22.7%
17 Czech Republic21.4%
18 Germany20.3%

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 = 0.532842 X +6.563
Correlation coefficient (r)0.225
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 44456.990807 X +34667.270
Correlation coefficient (r)0.273
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 6.231601 X +78.497
Correlation coefficient (r)0.349
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 1.252706 X +1.104
Correlation coefficient (r)0.543
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.295

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -2.951477 X +10.893
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032