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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:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States66.6%
2 Australia60.7%
3 Japan 60.1%
4 Italy58.1%
5 Canada55.3%
6 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 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.826696 X +7.242
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 24118.705004 X +38371.365
Correlation coefficient (r)0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.972238 X +82.206
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.047
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.020409 X +1.466
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.016
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 5.760445 X +9.257
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045