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Question: Did you live with your husband or wife before you got married?
Choices: "Yes" "No" "Not married"
Data: % of "Yes" among those married
Period:
Area:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland53.3%
2 Austria43.0%
3 Norway41.9%
4 Germany 39.9%
5 Slovenia35.8%
6 Czech Republic31.6%
7 Canada30.8%
8 United States30.4%
9 Netherlands28.5%
10 Israel25.6%
11 New Zealand25.4%
12 Australia24.4%
13 Hungary14.5%
14 Poland12.5%
15 Ireland10.6%
16 Japan7.6%
17 Spain7.2%
18 Italy4.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 20 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 2.379512 X +6.271
Correlation coefficient (r)0.708
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.501

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 76065.107845 X +31706.594
Correlation coefficient (r)0.438
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.192

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 1.224364 X +80.743
Correlation coefficient (r)0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.363738 X +1.477
Correlation coefficient (r)0.143
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 10.040637 X +9.665
Correlation coefficient (r)0.392
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154