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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Children are a financial burden on their parents.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
40 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal78.4%
2 France74.7%
3 Switzerland68.6%
4 Austria64.7%
5 Poland64.3%
6 Taiwan62.9%
7 Turkiye58.3%
8 Hungary57.9%
9 Czech Republic54.8%
10 Republic of Korea53.1%
11 Belgium50.6%
12 Germany50.5%
13 China43.3%
14 Slovenia41.5%
15 Japan40.5%
16 Russian Federation39.3%
17 Israel37.3%
18 Canada36.1%
19 Ireland35.6%
20 Australia35.2%
21 Latvia32.9%
22 Chile31.5%
22 Denmark31.5%
24 United Kingdom30.0%
25 South Africa29.2%
26 Venezuela28.6%
27 United States26.8%
28 Netherlands25.2%
29 Bulgaria24.8%
30 Slovakia24.6%
31 Croatia23.9%
32 Lithuania23.3%
33 Sweden23.0%
34 Mexico22.9%
35 Philippines22.3%
36 India20.9%
37 Finland 19.7%
38 Argentina19.1%
39 Iceland16.2%
40 Norway10.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 198 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.062390 X +6.462
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.012
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 2602.519138 X +35971.974
Correlation coefficient (r)0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = 6.141969 X +76.265
Correlation coefficient (r)0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = -0.563213 X +1.901
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.259
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = 3.579496 X +11.762
Correlation coefficient (r)0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010