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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Watching children grow up is life's greatest joy.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary96.8%
2 Austria94.2%
3 Italy94.0%
4 Spain93.9%
5 Slovenia93.2%
6 Germany91.9%
7 Poland91.3%
7 Sweden91.3%
9 Ireland86.9%
10 Japan 86.7%
11 Norway85.4%
12 Czech Republic84.8%
13 Israel83.9%
14 Australia82.4%
15 United States82.1%
16 United Kingdom79.3%
17 New Zealand77.8%
18 Netherlands74.8%
19 Canada74.7%

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

No data for 19 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -2.983086 X +9.376
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -133437.879181 X +165922.414
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.371
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -8.615236 X +88.434
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -1.235807 X +2.688
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.225
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -2.035599 X +11.443
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003