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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 Germany62.5%
2 United States59.1%
3 Italy58.7%
4 Japan 51.4%
5 United Kingdom50.4%
6 Republic of Korea47.2%
7 Australia34.9%
8 Sweden29.3%
9 France21.6%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.817671 X +7.114
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -12045.748632 X +55028.434
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.435142 X +84.418
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.374
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.140

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.843771 X +1.858
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.200942 X +16.610
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014