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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 Latvia 5.06
29 Japan5.03
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 = 1.057588 X +0.968
Correlation coefficient (r)0.457
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.209

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 33258.165036 X -136688.604
Correlation coefficient (r)0.395
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.156

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 2.760773 X +65.322
Correlation coefficient (r)0.282
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.334188 X -0.234
Correlation coefficient (r)0.293
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -12.377359 X +80.895
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.649
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.421