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Question: All in all, what do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have?
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Data: % of 3 or more
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel86.9%
2 Iceland73.0%
3 Philippines69.8%
4 Ireland66.6%
5 South Africa62.8%
6 Japan58.2%
7 Republic of Korea51.1%
8 Norway50.7%
9 Poland47.5%
10 Australia44.9%
11 Chile44.2%
11 Finland44.2%
13 Argentina43.0%
14 Croatia42.7%
14 Latvia42.7%
16 Canada42.0%
17 France38.7%
17 Slovenia38.7%
19 Denmark37.2%
20 Lithuania36.0%
21 Netherlands34.8%
22 Mexico34.5%
23 Slovakia34.4%
24 Taiwan30.9%
25 Russian Federation29.4%
26 Belgium27.4%
27 Portugal24.7%
28 Austria23.6%
29 Hungary 22.6%
30 Germany22.1%
31 Bulgaria21.5%
32 India18.8%
33 Czech Republic17.1%
34 China0.0%

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

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 1.206173 X +6.006
Correlation coefficient (r)0.296
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 44205.350271 X +19543.638
Correlation coefficient (r)0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.892262 X +77.296
Correlation coefficient (r)0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.039162 X +1.188
Correlation coefficient (r)0.459
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.211

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.428934 X +10.922
Correlation coefficient (r)0.016
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000