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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Having children increases people's social standing in society.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
40 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation74.2%
2 India71.7%
3 Iceland66.9%
4 Latvia62.6%
5 Philippines61.8%
6 Poland60.6%
7 Turkiye54.5%
8 Venezuela53.8%
9 South Africa53.5%
10 Slovakia47.6%
11 Bulgaria47.5%
12 Czech Republic47.0%
13 Sweden46.5%
14 Lithuania45.8%
15 Israel45.7%
16 Croatia43.5%
17 Taiwan42.6%
18 Denmark41.3%
19 Japan40.8%
20 Norway40.1%
21 Belgium39.8%
22 China38.3%
23 Hungary 38.0%
24 Austria37.9%
24 Republic of Korea37.9%
26 Netherlands37.1%
27 Slovenia35.7%
28 Portugal35.5%
29 Argentina34.1%
29 Germany34.1%
31 France33.8%
32 Finland33.4%
33 United States33.1%
34 Ireland32.6%
35 Switzerland30.3%
36 Canada28.2%
37 Chile26.9%
38 Mexico25.3%
39 Australia23.8%
40 United Kingdom20.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 198 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -2.630274 X +7.598
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.453
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.205

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -85049.819818 X +75506.277
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.403
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = -20.505194 X +87.327
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.553
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.306

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = 0.814597 X +1.275
Correlation coefficient (r)0.271
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = 7.362819 X +7.482
Correlation coefficient (r)0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038