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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Tajikistan76.0%
2 Philippines75.6%
3 Cyprus75.5%
4 Poland70.9%
5 Slovakia70.1%
6 Australia65.9%
7 Bulgaria65.5%
8 Uruguay65.3%
9 Israel65.1%
10 Brazil62.8%
11 Japan 62.3%
12 Germany61.7%
13 Latvia58.8%
14 Russian Federation56.9%
15 Czech Republic56.1%
16 Ireland54.3%
17 United States53.0%
18 New Zealand52.0%
19 Denmark50.5%
20 Portugal48.1%
21 Finland47.6%
22 Chile45.7%
23 Hungary45.6%
24 Mexico45.3%
25 Austria44.2%
26 Syrian Arab Republic43.8%
27 Norway42.3%
28 France37.5%
29 Spain35.7%
30 Slovenia35.6%
31 Belgium31.5%
32 Switzerland31.0%
33 Netherlands25.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -1.992322 X +7.652
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.479
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.229

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -82009.792368 X +83313.150
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.410
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.168

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -14.685897 X +86.067
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.421
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.177

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.985783 X +1.206
Correlation coefficient (r)0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -5.112298 X +12.325
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026