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Question: Did you live with your husband or wife before you got married?
Choices: "Yes" "No" "Not married"
Data: % of "Yes" among those married
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland53.3%
2 Russian Federation47.3%
3 Austria43.0%
4 Norway41.9%
5 Germany39.9%
6 Slovenia35.8%
7 Czech Republic31.6%
8 Canada30.8%
9 United States30.4%
10 Uruguay29.1%
11 Netherlands28.5%
12 Philippines26.2%
13 Israel25.6%
14 New Zealand25.4%
15 Australia24.4%
16 Bulgaria21.7%
17 Hungary14.5%
18 Poland12.5%
19 Ireland10.6%
20 Japan 7.6%
21 Spain7.2%
22 Italy4.4%

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 = 1.224352 X +6.304
Correlation coefficient (r)0.323
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 54320.926783 X +32323.185
Correlation coefficient (r)0.262
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -3.660195 X +81.021
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.142790 X +1.555
Correlation coefficient (r)0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 12.847897 X +6.725
Correlation coefficient (r)0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154