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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark92.6%
2 Netherlands89.7%
3 Switzerland86.9%
4 Syrian Arab Republic86.3%
5 Belgium85.2%
6 Portugal81.3%
7 France79.4%
8 Finland79.0%
8 Norway79.0%
10 Austria76.8%
11 Spain76.3%
12 Hungary74.3%
13 Germany70.4%
14 United States69.6%
15 Brazil68.9%
16 Slovenia68.4%
17 Chile67.3%
18 Australia65.3%
19 New Zealand63.7%
20 Ireland62.0%
21 Poland60.5%
22 Czech Republic57.6%
23 Russian Federation55.6%
24 Israel52.8%
25 Mexico52.7%
26 Bulgaria49.3%
27 Latvia48.9%
28 Uruguay46.5%
29 Japan 42.5%
30 Slovakia33.1%
31 Cyprus32.8%
32 Tajikistan27.8%
33 Philippines20.4%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 1.923647 X +5.373
Correlation coefficient (r)0.614
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.377

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 82284.537099 X -12460.343
Correlation coefficient (r)0.547
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.299

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 12.547441 X +70.250
Correlation coefficient (r)0.486
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.236

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.797331 X +2.239
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.313
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.098

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.571900 X +7.964
Correlation coefficient (r)0.109
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012