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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Watching children grow up is life's greatest joy.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
40 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 South Africa97.6%
2 Venezuela97.3%
3 Argentina97.0%
3 Bulgaria97.0%
5 China96.8%
6 Slovenia95.3%
7 Philippines95.1%
8 Turkiye95.0%
9 Chile94.6%
10 Taiwan94.5%
11 Russian Federation94.3%
12 Portugal94.0%
13 Germany93.7%
14 Croatia93.5%
15 Poland93.3%
16 Mexico93.1%
16 Slovakia 93.1%
18 Denmark92.5%
19 Lithuania92.4%
20 Hungary91.6%
21 Sweden91.1%
22 Israel90.6%
23 Austria90.4%
24 France90.1%
25 Switzerland89.7%
26 Norway88.5%
27 Iceland88.2%
28 Czech Republic87.5%
29 Belgium87.2%
29 United States87.2%
31 Latvia86.3%
32 Ireland86.2%
33 Republic of Korea85.8%
34 India85.5%
35 Japan85.4%
36 Australia84.9%
37 United Kingdom83.9%
38 Finland81.8%
39 Canada79.0%
40 Netherlands77.1%

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 = -5.903909 X +11.817
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.400
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.160

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -284632.532530 X +296725.916
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.532
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.283

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = -42.778535 X +117.240
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.451
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = 2.391808 X -0.539
Correlation coefficient (r)0.311
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = -17.434961 X +26.372
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.179
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032