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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States5.67
2 Australia5.62
2 United Kingdom5.62
4 Sweden5.55
5 Germany5.54
6 Japan 5.52
7 France5.33

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.385054 X -0.798
Correlation coefficient (r)0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 61184.103261 X -286003.202
Correlation coefficient (r)0.622
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.387

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -9.076087 X +132.015
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.435
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.189

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.563859 X +4.721
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.421
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.177

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -3.505435 X +32.684
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.142
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020