Social integration
Births

Importance of children for adults: views in % by country 2002

Definitions/comments: Percentages correspond to respondents who agreed (strongly) with the statement.

Question wording: ‘Watching children grow up is life’s greatest joy’; ‘People who have never had children lead empty lives’.

Answer categories: ‘strongly agree’, ‘agree’, ‘neither agree nor disagree’, ‘disagree’, ‘strongly disagree’, ‘can't choose’.

Sample size: ISSP 2002: 1008–2471; weighted data.

Source: ISSP 2002.

Data for the indicator or in excel.

Description and explanation in the corresponding chapter of the Social Report 2008.