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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - People who want children ought to get married.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia65.9%
2 Japan 62.3%
3 Germany61.7%
4 United States53.0%
5 France37.5%

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

No data for 5 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.324291 X +6.598
Correlation coefficient (r)0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 20601.383178 X +41996.344
Correlation coefficient (r)0.187
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 6.239643 X +78.141
Correlation coefficient (r)0.256
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.266494 X +2.294
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.814
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.663

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -3.634390 X +16.038
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061