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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - The main advantage of marriage is that it gives financial security.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria56.1%
1 Russian Federation56.1%
3 Philippines51.1%
4 Hungary49.6%
5 Austria45.5%
6 Japan 42.4%
7 Poland41.9%
8 Germany41.1%
9 Slovenia35.9%
10 Czech Republic35.4%
11 Spain33.5%
12 Israel27.1%
13 Ireland25.6%
14 Switzerland22.8%
15 United States21.5%
16 Norway20.7%
17 Italy18.2%
18 Uruguay17.1%
19 Netherlands16.4%
20 Australia16.1%
21 New Zealand15.3%
22 Canada7.8%

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 = -2.590642 X +7.454
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.740
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.548

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -116950.887868 X +82610.981
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.586
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.343

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -21.019722 X +85.939
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.643
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.413

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.284589 X +1.562
Correlation coefficient (r)0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.194572 X +10.119
Correlation coefficient (r)0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000