GENERAL DATA:
 

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Concept AUS
TRAL
W GERM E GERM GERM GB USA AUST HUN ITAL IRL NL NORW
 A. 27.6 20.5 18 20 20.5 41.5 25.5 17 28.5 40 10 17
 B. 12.5 10 16 12 19 29 13 14 3 2 11 10.5
 C. 11 19 16 18 18.5 23.5 20.5 -- 5 5 15 26
 D. 32.5 33.5 8 27 33.5 45 35 13 45 60 31 26
 E. 22 7.5 3 6 17 40.5 12 29 25.5 43 10 10
 F. 63 52 59 54 64 74 71 91 74 77 23 52.5

Concept SWED CZEC SLOV POLO BULG RUS NZEL CAN PHIL ISR JAP SPA
 A. 7 23.5 26.5 34 38.5 11 26 19 74 26.5 42.5 26.5
 B. 16 15 7.5 8 9.5 23.5 13 13 7.5 9 3.5 4.5
 C. 32.5 32 14 8.5 18 27 18.5 26 9 16.5 3 8
 D. 10 17 16 44 10 6 34 31.5 81.5 19 42 45.5
 E. 5.5 11 6 26.5 32 25 24 16 76 26.5 41 27
 F. 62 41 83 82 86 74 61.5 45 93.5 65.5 87 49

Original data from ISSP or International Social Survey Program 1994: The Family and Changing Gender Roles II. // Concepts:
A. A couple living together without to be married is OK ? % Answered are disagree or very disagree.
B. You are/were divorced (one time min.) ? % Yes.
C. Do you live/d together with a partner without to be married (one time min.) ? % Yes
D. Abortion, it has not importance the reason if someone wants it. % Disagree or very disagree.
E. Pre matrimonial sex. % Answered that it is always or almost always wrong.
F. Homosexual sex. % Answered that it is always or almost always wrong.
(Ciphers made round).
 



 
 
  GERM CAND COLO USA FRAN GB GUAT HUNG ISLAN LITH MEXC SPAIN
No correct 9 25 10 47 8 25 38 16 3 16 31 21.5
Correct 90 72 87 50 91 73 56 81 95 75 67 73

Question: Is correct that some couple had had children out of matrimony ?  Source, Gallup International '97.
 



 
 
 
  CZECH REPUBLIC SLOVAKIA HUNGARY POLAND RUSSIA UKRAINE LATVIA
Weekly atten. 6 21 7 46 1 3 4
Orthodox (1) - - - - 66 60 28
Protestant 8 13 23 - - 1 28
Catholic (2) 42 64 66 96 - 4 20
Muslim - - - - 5 - -
Atheist/
No religious
49 20 8 2 17 16 9
Is religious 33 54 50 80 20 22 22
Belief: 
in god
25 51 52 91 46 49 53
in a life after death 16 36 22 61 21 27 29

Poll carried out by Roger Russell Research, Szonda Ipsos, Pentor, Latvian Facts, Ukranian Academy of Sciences - Kiev,
CESSI, and other instututes in 1991-93. (See in the Samford University site). - Religious And Social Attitudes and the Book
Market, Central and Eastern Europe.
(1) Including all of its variables (2) Including uniates. // The last three answers according to afirmative answers.
 



 
 
 
  BELGIUM GREECE PORTUGAL FRANCE NEDERLAND ITALY SPAIN
Degree 1º(a)  22 2 2 28.5 25.5 7 13
Degree 10º(a)  10 54.5 38.5 10 16.5 31 29.5
Pol. beliefs  27 25.5 26.5 15.5 22.5 28 24.5
1 - 4 (b)  36 22.5 33 40 36 40.5 43.5
5 - 7 (b)  50 50.5 53.5 49 53 44.5 44
8 - 10 (b)  14 23 13.5 11 11 15 13
Weekly assist.  23 24 34.5 16 14 36.5 29
Religious  65.5 94 91.5 48.5 55.5 84.5 67.5
Not religious  23 4.5 5.5 25 34.5 4.5 18.5
Agnostic  2 0.5 1.5 5.5 3.5 1.5 7.5
Atheist  9 1 2 21 6 2.5 6.5

 (a): Escale 1 - 10 in the importance of god in the one's life; 1  minimum, 10  maximum. In political beliefs, there were
 too: ecologist, liberalism, comunism, socialdemocratic, laicism, conservadurism, and others. (b): Escale left - right.
 The last four answers were about the self consideration.  NOTE: The 4 countries in the right are for comparison, the
 extract hasn't the rest of comunitary countries. Extract of the Eurobarometer 42 (1994); ICPSR #6518.
 



 

 Extract of data available in the book Human Values and Beliefs: A Cross-Cultural Sourcebook. Political, Religious, Sexual,
 and Economic Norms in 43 Societies: Findings from the 1990-93 World Values Survey; by Ronald Inglehart, Miguel Basañez &
 Alejandro Moreno (The University of Michigan Press, 1998):
 
  ROM  POL  BUL  CHL  CZK  S.AF  LIT  HUN  ARG  BRA MEX  BER  RUS  LAT  EST  POR  IRL  SLO 
Religion, very important 42 53 12 51 11 66 16 23 40 57 34 12 12 7 5 17 48 17
Very happy 6 10 7 33 5 24 4 11 33 21 26 6 6 2 3 13 44 9
Church, month + weekly attend. 31 85 9 47 21 - - 34 55 50 63 6 6 9 - 41 88 35
Is religious 75 95 36 77 46 83 55 57 73 88 75 41 56 54 21 69 72 73
Belief in god 94 97 40 95 - 98 - 65 92 99 93 43 44 58 - 86 98 63
Personal god 36 - 10 52 - - 21 40 58 56 56 6 8 10 7 62 67 22
In life after death 58 78 18 70 - 78 - 26 65 74 61 18 21 30 - 39 83 28
Reincarnation  24 26 25 49 - 43 - 23 39 57 43 24 22 45 - 29 20 17
Resurrection  50 83 16 69 - 76 - 27 50 67 58 10 8 16 - 38 77 22
In Hell 43 54 11 45 - 52 - 16 41 39 48 9 16 7 - 25 53 17
In Heaven  58 80 16 77 - 91 - 27 69 76 70 12 18 12 - 56 90 30
Pray (often or sometimes) 72 - 21 76 - - - 38 66 87 71 16 17 28 -. 58 81 38
A. 38 18 47 60 23 19 55 39 58 51 43 47 42 26 32 40 23 60
B. 51 13 64 07 93 11 29 43 19 13 17 39 42 46 25 21 08 44
C. 67 26 77 14 34 13 45 69 25 15 19 66 67 67 73 37 08 70
Left (1-4) 19 20 31 30 22 39 - 18 18 30 21 60 33 - - 23 12 23
Center (5-6) 53 50 47 52 49 32 - 65 61 39 48 30 56 - - 46 55 63
Right (7-10)  29 30 22 18 30 29 - 18 21 31 32 10 11 - - 31 33 14
Homosexual. (a) 87 81 81 78 39 78 89 85 63 73 58 84 89 84 78 67 52 66
Abortion (a) 25 43 29 76 9 66 31 27 48 66 43 28 20 27 15 28 53 19
  ROM POL BUL CHL CZK S.AF LIT HUN ARG BRA MEX BER RUS LAT EST POR IRL SLO

Note: In the secttion on beliefs, there were three possible anwers: YES NO or Don't Know.
A. If a woman wants to have a child without a stable relationship with a man, do you... % approve. // B. Abortion where
the woman is not married, do you... % approve. // C. Abortion where a married couple don't want more children, do you...
% approve. (a) % Answered "never justificable" (code 1 from a ten-point scale).
 
  SPA  UK  ITA  NL  BEL  AUS  FRA  CAN  USA  ICE  E.GE  W.GE  GER  DK FIN  NOR  SWE  SWI 
Religion, very important 21 16 34 19 15 25 14 31 53 24 16 13 14 9 15 15 10 24
% Very happy 20 38 16 48 40 30 25 30 41 41 14 16 15 43 20 29 41 36
Church, month + weekly attend. 39 24 53 30 31 44 17 40 58 9 20 34 30 11 11 13 10 43
Is religious 70 56 86 61 68 81 51 71 84 75 38 65 58 73 59 48 31 74
Belief in god 86 78 91 64 69 87 62 89 96 85 36 78 60 64 76 65 45 -
Personal God 49 33 67 27 32 29 22 44 69 51 17 25 23 20 29 30 16 23
Life after death 52 52 68 47 44 56 44 69 78 81 21 50 42 34 60 45 38 64
Reincarnation 28 29 27 22 16 29 28 31 26 40 13 26 21 17 34 15 20 36
Resurrection 39 37 53 30 32 51 30 56 73 51 20 40 35 23 49 32 21 48
In Hell 30 28 42 13 17 20 17 42 71 12 9 15 14 8 27 19 8 24
In Heaven 52 59 54 37 34 47 32 72 87 57 25 38 35 19 55 44 31 44
Pray (often or sometimes) 56 43 67 46 41 57 34 62 78 51 28 46 41 25 53 36 25 -
A. 65 36 39 44