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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - It is all right for a couple to live together without intending to get married.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines 71.5%
2 Cyprus44.7%
3 Slovakia42.0%
4 Japan41.7%
5 Israel40.8%
6 Ireland39.0%
7 Chile38.9%
8 Bulgaria36.3%
9 Uruguay35.0%
10 Latvia30.5%
11 Italy27.9%
12 Poland27.4%
13 Australia27.1%
14 New Zealand24.8%
15 Portugal23.9%
16 Canada21.8%
16 Slovenia21.8%
18 Austria18.0%
19 United States17.7%
20 Spain17.2%
21 Russian Federation16.5%
22 Czech Republic15.8%
23 Norway15.5%
24 Hungary15.3%
25 Syrian Arab Republic14.7%
26 Germany13.2%
27 Netherlands10.5%
28 France10.2%
29 Switzerland7.9%
30 Denmark5.5%

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

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -2.008753 X +7.164
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.470
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.221

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -74524.047519 X +60726.634
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -6.317667 X +81.151
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.769951 X +1.450
Correlation coefficient (r)0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -13.383571 X +15.512
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127