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Question: Do you think it is wrong or not wrong if a man and a woman have sexual relations before marriage?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines64.9%
2 Chile31.8%
2 Israel31.8%
4 Uruguay29.7%
5 Ireland29.6%
6 Bulgaria28.2%
7 Portugal 22.8%
8 Cyprus18.3%
9 Poland18.1%
10 Italy17.6%
11 New Zealand17.1%
12 Hungary16.6%
13 Slovakia16.0%
14 Spain15.8%
15 Russian Federation15.3%
16 Australia14.2%
17 Canada12.4%
18 Japan11.9%
19 United States11.5%
20 Latvia9.3%
21 Netherlands7.4%
22 Norway6.2%
23 Denmark6.0%
23 Syrian Arab Republic6.0%
25 France5.0%
26 Germany4.3%
27 Switzerland4.2%
28 Czech Republic3.2%
29 Austria3.0%
30 Slovenia2.8%

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 data29
Regression equation
Y = -2.053438 X +6.975
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.435
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.189

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -77816.322920 X +53983.087
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -10.120388 X +81.146
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.355
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.126

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.200030 X +1.456
Correlation coefficient (r)0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -15.860023 X +14.606
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.383
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147