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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:
27 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 New Zealand5.60
12 Norway5.55
12 Slovenia5.55
12 Sweden5.55
15 Germany5.54
16 Japan 5.52
17 Netherlands5.50
18 Spain5.48
19 Belgium5.47
20 Portugal5.44
21 Finland5.43
22 Poland5.37
23 France5.33
24 Hungary5.30
25 Czech Republic5.14
26 Slovakia5.06
27 Latvia4.96

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.720578 X +2.856
Correlation coefficient (r)0.306
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 42570.306451 X -188832.087
Correlation coefficient (r)0.411
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.169

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 4.230049 X +57.124
Correlation coefficient (r)0.369
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.136

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.323522 X -0.178
Correlation coefficient (r)0.248
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -7.594839 X +54.624
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.463
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.214