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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:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States62.4%
2 Germany60.9%
3 France60.4%
4 Australia52.5%
5 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 5 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 3.021917 X +5.148
Correlation coefficient (r)0.803
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.645

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 57799.796284 X +22337.710
Correlation coefficient (r)0.549
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.301

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -17.581047 X +91.134
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.755
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.570

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.160303 X +0.957
Correlation coefficient (r)0.780
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.608

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -3.403463 X +15.838
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059