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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:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico5.90
2 Iceland5.83
3 Switzerland5.79
4 Poland5.72
5 Chile5.68
6 Israel5.67
6 United Kingdom5.67
8 Denmark5.64
9 Netherlands5.63
9 United States5.63
11 Australia5.60
11 Ireland5.60
13 Canada5.59
14 Spain5.58
15 Germany5.57
15 Portugal5.57
17 Norway5.53
18 Finland5.52
19 Sweden5.50
20 Austria5.48
21 Belgium5.47
22 Slovenia5.46
23 France5.36
24 Slovakia5.29
25 Turkiye5.22
26 Czech Republic5.19
27 Hungary5.12
28 Latvia5.06
29 Japan 5.03
30 Republic of Korea4.89
31 Lithuania4.62

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 7 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.894252 X +1.840
Correlation coefficient (r)0.449
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.202

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 37197.762258 X -155608.094
Correlation coefficient (r)0.429
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.184

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 2.666766 X +65.956
Correlation coefficient (r)0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.366155 X -0.473
Correlation coefficient (r)0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -8.502075 X +56.930
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.603
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.364