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Question: Whether the person has children to support ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany64.5%
2 France46.0%
3 United States44.2%
4 United Kingdom36.2%
5 Canada33.4%
6 Japan 33.0%
7 Sweden26.6%
8 Australia21.1%

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 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.313089 X +7.026
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.105
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -15632.351609 X +59342.209
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -7.153800 X +84.377
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.174198 X +1.501
Correlation coefficient (r)0.153
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.055926 X +13.071
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.003
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000