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Question: Do you personally think it is wrong or not wrong for a woman to have an abortion if the family has a very low income and cannot afford any more children?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy65.0%
2 United States59.3%
3 Japan 52.9%
4 Canada47.6%
5 Germany46.6%
6 United Kingdom42.4%
7 Australia37.3%
8 Sweden35.3%
9 France24.0%

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

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.251311 X +7.428
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.391
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.153

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -14652.301196 X +58073.894
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.408533 X +83.733
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.106332 X +2.036
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.775
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.601

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.308668 X +15.221
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.248
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062