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Question: What is needed to support a family ? 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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile76.3%
2 Philippines 75.7%
3 Israel67.9%
4 Spain63.0%
5 Cyprus61.6%
6 United States61.0%
7 Russian Federation57.9%
8 United Kingdom57.6%
9 France57.1%
10 Germany56.4%
11 Bulgaria55.1%
12 Latvia53.8%
12 Slovakia53.8%
14 Canada53.4%
15 New Zealand49.7%
16 Austria49.6%
17 Norway45.9%
18 Slovenia45.7%
19 Portugal44.0%
20 Hungary41.8%
21 Poland40.8%
22 Czech Republic39.0%
23 Australia36.1%
24 Japan33.4%
25 Sweden30.7%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.010220 X +7.100
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.203
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -48824.008316 X +62815.130
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.277
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -9.334811 X +84.345
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.299
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.252475 X +0.963
Correlation coefficient (r)0.422
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.178

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -18.931806 X +22.220
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.443
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.196