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Question: Do you personally think it is wrong or not wrong for a woman to have an abortion if there is a strong chance of serious defect in the baby?
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 United States33.1%
2 Japan 26.9%
3 Italy25.0%
4 Germany22.1%
5 Canada19.9%
6 Australia16.1%
7 United Kingdom13.4%
8 Sweden9.4%
9 France8.9%

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 = -2.059484 X +7.258
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.419
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 5733.743091 X +50278.824
Correlation coefficient (r)0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.210499 X +83.511
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.185650 X +1.761
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.541
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.293

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 5.357856 X +11.304
Correlation coefficient (r)0.137
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019