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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Divorce is usually the best solution when a couple can't seem to work out their marriage problems.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States62.4%
2 Germany60.9%
3 France 60.4%
4 Australia52.5%
5 Japan33.8%

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 5 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 2.133961 X +5.482
Correlation coefficient (r)0.703
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.494

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 82130.202662 X +8873.091
Correlation coefficient (r)0.570
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.325

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -18.260686 X +91.301
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.692
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.479

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.360683 X +0.879
Correlation coefficient (r)0.822
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.676

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -4.112255 X +13.405
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042