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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - It is all right for a couple to live together without intending to get married.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark92.6%
2 Netherlands89.7%
3 Switzerland86.9%
4 Belgium85.2%
5 Portugal81.3%
6 France79.4%
7 Finland79.0%
7 Norway79.0%
9 Austria76.8%
10 Spain76.3%
11 Hungary74.3%
12 Germany70.4%
13 United States69.6%
14 Slovenia68.4%
15 Chile 67.3%
16 Australia65.3%
17 New Zealand63.7%
18 Ireland62.0%
19 Poland60.5%
20 Czech Republic57.6%
21 Israel52.8%
22 Mexico52.7%
23 Latvia48.9%
24 Japan42.5%
25 Slovakia33.1%

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 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.422581 X +5.791
Correlation coefficient (r)0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 76138.860777 X -3703.515
Correlation coefficient (r)0.445
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.198

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 7.145516 X +75.637
Correlation coefficient (r)0.383
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.530570 X +1.927
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.249
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.428969 X +10.310
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000