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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:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 62.2%
2 Australia44.0%
3 Canada38.0%
4 Italy28.0%
5 United States22.7%
6 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 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.608173 X +7.361
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.580
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.336

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -25573.283152 X +60913.451
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 12.421010 X +77.212
Correlation coefficient (r)0.786
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.618

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.325437 X +1.572
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.334
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 5.925683 X +10.325
Correlation coefficient (r)0.282
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080