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Question: Did you live with your husband or wife before you got married?
Choices: "Yes" "No" "Not married"
Data: % of "Yes" among those married
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland53.3%
2 Russian Federation47.3%
3 Austria43.0%
4 Norway41.9%
5 Germany39.9%
6 Slovenia35.8%
7 Czech Republic31.6%
8 Canada30.8%
9 United States30.4%
10 Uruguay29.1%
11 Netherlands28.5%
12 Philippines 26.2%
13 Israel25.6%
14 New Zealand25.4%
15 Australia24.4%
16 Bulgaria21.7%
17 Hungary14.5%
18 Poland12.5%
19 Ireland10.6%
20 Japan7.6%
21 Spain7.2%
22 Italy4.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 216 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 1.530110 X +6.280
Correlation coefficient (r)0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 50223.135920 X +30603.941
Correlation coefficient (r)0.249
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -3.102875 X +80.539
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.293796 X +1.548
Correlation coefficient (r)0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 16.696759 X +8.196
Correlation coefficient (r)0.433
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187