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Question: Do you think it is wrong or not wrong if a man and a woman have sexual relations in their early teens, say under 16 years old?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland83.6%
2 Poland77.3%
3 Philippines76.9%
4 Bulgaria70.8%
4 Uruguay70.8%
6 New Zealand70.5%
7 Israel66.8%
8 United States66.6%
9 Australia60.7%
10 Japan 60.1%
11 Czech Republic59.4%
12 Italy58.1%
13 Spain55.8%
14 Canada55.3%
14 Norway55.3%
16 Hungary50.5%
17 Netherlands45.2%
18 Russian Federation45.0%
19 Slovenia44.2%
20 Austria35.7%
21 Switzerland32.3%
22 Germany31.8%

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

No data for 216 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.639152 X +7.003
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -25839.722476 X +60496.461
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -8.864161 X +84.405
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.271
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.867038 X +1.150
Correlation coefficient (r)0.296
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -5.947136 X +13.621
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039