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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:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile72.0%
2 Israel64.8%
3 Germany64.5%
4 Spain62.5%
5 Latvia58.2%
6 Austria53.8%
7 Slovenia48.8%
8 France46.0%
9 Slovakia45.3%
10 United States44.2%
11 Portugal44.0%
12 Hungary39.6%
13 Norway37.8%
14 New Zealand37.0%
15 United Kingdom36.2%
16 Czech Republic34.3%
17 Canada33.4%
18 Japan 33.0%
19 Poland32.3%
20 Sweden26.6%
21 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 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.612624 X +7.003
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -41568.066497 X +60125.224
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -2.112098 X +81.379
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.108
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.645591 X +1.311
Correlation coefficient (r)0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -5.028799 X +14.973
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.187
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035