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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 Italy55.6%
2 Germany52.7%
3 Japan 25.8%
4 United Kingdom21.4%
5 United States19.3%
6 France12.7%
7 Australia11.9%
8 Sweden10.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.797646 X +7.046
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.338
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -35325.363132 X +60561.870
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.534
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.285

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.435057 X +81.839
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.710389 X +1.734
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.692
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.479

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -10.194460 X +15.083
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.537
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.288