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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - People who want children ought to get married.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
40 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 China86.5%
2 Philippines81.8%
3 Republic of Korea80.3%
4 Japan73.2%
5 Slovakia73.1%
6 Russian Federation71.9%
7 India70.2%
8 Taiwan68.1%
9 Poland65.8%
10 Israel65.7%
11 Lithuania64.8%
12 Czech Republic61.1%
13 Turkiye58.2%
14 Latvia54.4%
15 Bulgaria50.2%
16 Croatia48.6%
17 Australia47.7%
18 Canada46.5%
19 Austria44.8%
20 South Africa44.5%
21 Ireland44.0%
22 Mexico43.8%
23 Finland40.9%
24 Hungary 40.3%
25 Denmark38.1%
26 Germany36.9%
27 United States36.8%
28 Portugal34.8%
29 Argentina34.2%
30 Venezuela34.1%
31 Belgium32.6%
32 Norway31.2%
33 France31.0%
34 Chile29.4%
34 Switzerland29.4%
36 Iceland28.7%
37 Slovenia27.4%
38 Netherlands23.8%
39 United Kingdom23.5%
40 Sweden16.0%

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 = -1.817014 X +7.347
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -69687.332154 X +72619.290
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.471
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.222

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = -7.876558 X +82.318
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = 0.077591 X +1.585
Correlation coefficient (r)0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = 3.111034 X +9.147
Correlation coefficient (r)0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013