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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - It is better to have a bad marriage than no marriage at all.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 9.5%
2 Germany3.1%
3 France3.0%
4 Australia2.8%
5 United States2.5%

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 = -13.950826 X +7.363
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.926
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.857

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -287946.611217 X +65585.768
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.684
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.468

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 59.076093 X +79.171
Correlation coefficient (r)0.634
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.402

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -4.548162 X +1.774
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.764
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.584

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 21.158818 X +13.116
Correlation coefficient (r)0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141