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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico5.96
2 Chile5.81
2 Ireland5.81
4 Austria5.80
5 Denmark5.76
6 Switzerland5.73
7 Israel5.71
8 United States5.67
9 Australia5.62
9 United Kingdom5.62
11 New Zealand5.60
12 Norway5.55
12 Slovenia5.55
12 Sweden5.55
15 Germany5.54
16 Japan5.52
17 Netherlands5.50
18 Spain5.48
19 Belgium5.47
20 Portugal5.44
21 Finland 5.43
22 Poland5.37
23 France5.33
24 Hungary5.30
25 Czech Republic5.14
26 Slovakia5.06
27 Latvia4.96

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.745113 X +2.668
Correlation coefficient (r)0.372
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 44577.890440 X -199533.833
Correlation coefficient (r)0.400
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.160

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 4.409657 X +55.719
Correlation coefficient (r)0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.229050 X +0.368
Correlation coefficient (r)0.171
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -4.833341 X +36.710
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.392
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154