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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Having children interferes too much with the freedom of parents.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
40 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Taiwan57.6%
2 Republic of Korea53.6%
3 Portugal49.6%
4 Turkiye48.5%
5 Venezuela45.8%
6 Austria45.1%
7 China43.7%
8 Russian Federation41.4%
9 France41.3%
10 Bulgaria35.9%
11 Mexico34.4%
12 Japan33.4%
13 Czech Republic32.8%
14 Chile31.5%
15 Poland31.3%
16 Switzerland28.9%
17 India28.6%
18 Hungary 28.5%
19 Israel28.2%
20 Argentina26.5%
20 South Africa26.5%
22 Latvia25.9%
23 Belgium25.4%
24 Germany24.1%
25 Lithuania22.5%
26 Croatia21.1%
27 Philippines18.8%
28 Denmark16.8%
29 United States15.3%
30 Slovakia15.2%
31 Slovenia13.5%
32 Netherlands11.5%
33 Canada10.7%
34 Australia9.8%
35 Norway9.5%
36 United Kingdom8.9%
37 Iceland8.8%
38 Ireland8.7%
39 Finland6.8%
40 Sweden5.4%

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 = -2.763845 X +7.218
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -96308.210277 X +65074.460
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.504
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.254

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = -7.996141 X +80.669
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = -0.120126 X +1.653
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = -2.362174 X +11.234
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004