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Question: All things considered, how satisfied are you with your family life?
Choices: "Completely happy" "Very happy" "Fairly happy" "Neither happy nor unhappy" "Fairly unhappy" "Very unhappy" "Completely unhappy"
Average score (as "Completely happy"=7 "Very happy"=6 "Fairly happy"=5 "Neither happy nor unhappy"=4 "Fairly unhappy"=3 "Very unhappy"=2 "Completely unhappy"=1)
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United Kingdom 5.67
2 United States5.63
4 Canada5.59
5 Germany5.57
7 France5.36
8 Japan5.03

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.128405 X +0.449
Correlation coefficient (r)0.936
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.876

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 44190.712231 X -189141.983
Correlation coefficient (r)0.679
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.461

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -6.125867 X +114.822
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.675
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.456

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.304855 X -0.156
Correlation coefficient (r)0.366
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.134

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -3.353578 X +28.676
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.297
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088