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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico5.96
2 Chile5.81
2 Ireland5.81
4 Austria5.80
5 Denmark5.76
6 Switzerland5.73
7 Israel5.71
8 United States5.67
9 Australia5.62
9 United Kingdom5.62
11 Philippines5.61
12 New Zealand5.60
13 Norway5.55
13 Slovenia5.55
13 Sweden5.55
16 Cyprus5.54
16 Germany5.54
18 Japan5.52
19 Netherlands5.50
20 Spain5.48
21 Belgium5.47
22 Portugal5.44
23 Finland5.43
24 Taiwan5.38
25 Poland5.37
26 France5.33
27 Brazil 5.31
28 Hungary5.30
29 Czech Republic5.14
30 Slovakia5.06
31 Russian Federation4.99
32 Latvia4.96
33 Bulgaria4.88

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.199140 X +0.103
Correlation coefficient (r)0.492
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.242

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 46824.274825 X -215716.894
Correlation coefficient (r)0.480
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.230

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 6.794147 X +42.318
Correlation coefficient (r)0.499
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.249

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.288265 X +0.045
Correlation coefficient (r)0.232
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -7.473935 X +53.159
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157