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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines 75.4%
2 Chile72.0%
3 Israel64.8%
4 Germany64.5%
5 Cyprus63.8%
6 Spain62.5%
7 Latvia58.2%
8 Bulgaria57.2%
9 Austria53.8%
10 Russian Federation50.9%
11 Slovenia48.8%
12 France46.0%
13 Slovakia45.3%
14 United States44.2%
15 Portugal44.0%
16 Hungary39.6%
17 Norway37.8%
18 New Zealand37.0%
19 United Kingdom36.2%
20 Czech Republic34.3%
21 Canada33.4%
22 Japan33.0%
23 Poland32.3%
24 Sweden26.6%
25 Australia21.1%

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 = -1.427067 X +7.247
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.349
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -63054.070203 X +67113.700
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -8.305466 X +83.393
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.325
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.860739 X +1.211
Correlation coefficient (r)0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -12.200388 X +18.092
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.348
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.121