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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Austria83.5%
2 Spain81.4%
3 Portugal78.3%
4 Chile76.8%
5 Netherlands74.1%
6 Mexico72.8%
7 Denmark69.2%
8 Belgium66.9%
8 Israel66.9%
10 Slovenia66.2%
11 Poland63.9%
12 Finland63.2%
13 Czech Republic63.1%
14 United States62.4%
15 Latvia61.6%
16 Ireland61.4%
17 Germany60.9%
18 France60.4%
19 Hungary58.3%
20 Norway55.9%
21 Slovakia55.4%
22 Switzerland54.6%
23 Australia52.5%
23 New Zealand52.5%
25 Japan 33.8%

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 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.348426 X +6.545
Correlation coefficient (r)0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -53868.947193 X +81010.936
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -5.211839 X +83.279
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.029678 X +1.617
Correlation coefficient (r)0.010
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -10.743346 X +16.874
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158