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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Having children interferes too much with the freedom of parents.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 43.7%
2 Italy32.0%
3 Germany27.0%
4 Canada10.9%
5 United Kingdom10.6%
6 Australia9.6%
7 United States8.7%
8 Sweden5.1%

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

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -2.731686 X +7.383
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.896
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.803

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -65523.609381 X +64298.981
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.785
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.616

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 7.407475 X +80.296
Correlation coefficient (r)0.483
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.233

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.823122 X +1.646
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.763
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.582

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -2.394650 X +12.604
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010