WVS Database / Yeonju Heo / 2015048995
In the last lesson, we learned to collect and analyze data from the WVS Database. I selected and analyzed the questions and countries according to the order I learned. I selected the survey period 2010-2014 cause it is the most recent period. First, I chose country South Korea and its neighboring countries, China and Japan. Second, I chose Australia, Sweden, and the United States, which are usually interested. The selected question is: Please tell me for each of the following actions whether you think it can always be justified, never be justified, or something in between: Abortion.
The answer to the question was scored as a scoring scale. It was too complicated to transform this chart to graph as it is. So, I tried to summarize it in my own way. From 'Never justifiable' to '4' to 'Negative Positions', and from 7 to 'Always justifiable' to 'Positive Positions'. In other survey analysis class, the median values such as '5 and 6' were learned to be a good choice to answer when there was no thought. So I excluded those values. The summarized graph is below. I analyzed the perception of people by using 'Never justifiable', 'Always justifiable', averages(mean) and graph.
First, in the five countries except Sweden, the response to 'Never justifiable' is higher than the response to 'Always justifiable'. Sweden has a very high response to 'Always justifiable', which is significantly different from other countries. The highest average is Sweden with 7.81, followed by Australia and the United States. China has the lowest average of 2.81 and South Korea is the second lowest at 3.36.
Through the graph, we can more easily identify perceptions of abortion. In Australia, the response to 'Never justifiable' is 0.4 points higher than the response to 'Always justifiable', but the graph shows that there is more positive position. Australia and Sweden have more positive position to abortion. China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States have a negative position.
I looked up the position and related laws on abortion of each country. Sweden and the United States determine whether or not to allow abortion on a periodic basis. The United States, however, has a different stance on abortion permits in each state. Sweden allows abortion at the option of women up to 18 weeks of pregnancy. 19 to 29 weeks must be approved by the government. South Korea and Japan prohibited abortion, but take a system that allows them to set specific cases. Australia's largest state, NSW, failed in May to attempt to change the law that defines abortion as a crime. China allows abortion as a law.
I thought there would be a higher positive perception in countries where abortion was legal. So, It was interesting to see the opposite result in the United States and China where abortion was legal. The United States was understandable because each state has slightly different law. But, China was really surprised. The first time I saw the graph, I thought that China would certainly ban abortion. But I was surprised that abortion was allowed quite a long time ago in China. Australia has banned abortion, but the perception of abortion was interesting because it has more positive position.
Protests are being held around the world to legalize abortion and there are many opposite opinions. It is difficult to say because it is a sensitive topic, but I agree with abortion legalization. Because treating abortion as a crime is to infringe the decision of the body of women.
Apart from my opinion, it was interesting to know the perception of people to abortion, and it was interesting that the laws of the country and people's perceptions do not always coincide.
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