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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines86.8%
2 Chile83.5%
3 Ireland77.9%
4 Cyprus69.3%
5 Italy65.0%
6 United States59.3%
7 Poland59.2%
8 Israel56.6%
9 Netherlands54.8%
10 Austria54.3%
11 Japan52.9%
12 Portugal 52.0%
13 Spain50.4%
14 Canada47.6%
15 Norway47.4%
16 Germany46.6%
17 Switzerland45.4%
18 United Kingdom42.4%
19 New Zealand40.2%
20 Slovakia39.4%
21 Czech Republic38.3%
22 Australia37.3%
23 Denmark37.2%
24 Latvia36.9%
25 Sweden35.3%
26 Slovenia30.1%
27 Hungary29.3%
28 France24.0%
29 Bulgaria20.2%
30 Russian Federation14.3%

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

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.180925 X +6.592
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 13063.053398 X +36634.896
Correlation coefficient (r)0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 3.181483 X +78.386
Correlation coefficient (r)0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.305920 X +1.454
Correlation coefficient (r)0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -17.820579 X +20.561
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.646
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.417