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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 Kingdom5.67
2 United States5.63
3 Australia5.60
4 Canada5.59
5 Germany5.57
6 Sweden5.50
7 France 5.36
8 Japan5.03
9 Republic of Korea4.89

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 data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.210074 X +0.125
Correlation coefficient (r)0.809
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.654

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 38338.267509 X -157468.887
Correlation coefficient (r)0.757
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.573

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.737230 X +107.618
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.550
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.303

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.824539 X -2.970
Correlation coefficient (r)0.766
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.587

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -10.266245 X +67.564
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.692
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.479