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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Argentina5.97
2 Venezuela5.95
3 Mexico5.90
4 Philippines5.87
5 Iceland5.83
6 Switzerland5.79
7 Bulgaria5.78
8 Poland5.72
9 Croatia5.71
10 Chile5.68
11 Israel5.67
11 United Kingdom5.67
13 Denmark5.64
14 Netherlands5.63
14 United States5.63
16 Australia5.60
16 Ireland5.60
18 Canada5.59
19 Spain5.58
20 Germany5.57
20 Portugal5.57
22 Norway5.53
23 Finland 5.52
24 Sweden5.50
25 Austria5.48
26 Belgium5.47
27 Slovenia5.46
27 South Africa5.46
29 Taiwan5.43
30 France5.36
31 Slovakia5.29
32 Turkiye5.22
33 Czech Republic5.19
34 China5.15
35 India5.13
36 Hungary5.12
37 Latvia5.06
38 Japan5.03
39 Russian Federation4.98
40 Republic of Korea4.89
41 Lithuania4.62

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 0.715047 X +2.518
Correlation coefficient (r)0.250
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 15488.712015 X -48136.098
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 1.350466 X +71.267
Correlation coefficient (r)0.093
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.408413 X -0.563
Correlation coefficient (r)0.335
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -12.659196 X +82.416
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.638
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.407