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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:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands83.5%
2 Switzerland82.7%
3 Norway74.0%
4 Hungary70.8%
5 Germany68.9%
6 Canada67.4%
7 United States64.6%
8 Spain64.0%
9 Austria63.7%
10 Israel60.7%
11 Italy59.4%
12 New Zealand57.5%
13 Slovenia57.4%
14 Australia57.0%
15 Czech Republic54.3%
16 Poland52.7%
17 Ireland50.9%
18 Japan 37.3%

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

No data for 20 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 2.304843 X +5.446
Correlation coefficient (r)0.548
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.300

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 72902.737598 X +5821.053
Correlation coefficient (r)0.335
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -1.502284 X +82.002
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.067
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -0.062091 X +1.610
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 1.338102 X +11.435
Correlation coefficient (r)0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002