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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Watching children grow up is life's greatest joy.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile98.4%
2 Mexico96.8%
3 Portugal95.9%
4 Hungary95.2%
5 Slovenia94.2%
6 Denmark93.1%
7 Poland92.2%
8 Austria91.9%
9 Israel91.4%
10 Slovakia91.3%
11 Spain90.9%
12 Sweden90.3%
13 France90.0%
14 Czech Republic89.7%
15 Switzerland89.2%
16 Latvia87.8%
17 Norway87.0%
18 Japan 86.2%
19 Belgium86.1%
20 Germany86.0%
21 United States85.5%
22 Ireland85.4%
23 Australia83.2%
24 Finland81.4%
25 United Kingdom81.0%
26 Netherlands80.8%
27 New Zealand80.2%

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

No data for 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -5.782945 X +11.982
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.534
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.285

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -244532.343879 X +263996.115
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.513
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.263

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -19.893314 X +98.202
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.146043 X +0.592
Correlation coefficient (r)0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -8.921635 X +20.567
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.118
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014