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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Watching children grow up is life's greatest joy.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden90.3%
2 France90.0%
3 Japan 86.2%
4 Germany86.0%
5 United States85.5%
6 Australia83.2%
7 United Kingdom81.0%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.106508 X +6.798
Correlation coefficient (r)0.008
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -20440.523981 X +71153.262
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 11.242341 X +71.971
Correlation coefficient (r)0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.016903 X -0.144
Correlation coefficient (r)0.456
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.208

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 53.648849 X -32.925
Correlation coefficient (r)0.659
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.434