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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 = 36227.899744 X -152250.435
Correlation coefficient (r)0.400
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.160

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 2.912228 X +64.085
Correlation coefficient (r)0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.384781 X -0.497
Correlation coefficient (r)0.328
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

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