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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 Finland5.52
24 Sweden5.50
25 Austria5.48
26 Belgium5.47
27 Slovenia5.46
27 South Africa5.46
29 Taiwan5.43
30 France5.36
31 Slovakia 5.29
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 = 0.628069 X +3.032
Correlation coefficient (r)0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 18816.001969 X -64067.607
Correlation coefficient (r)0.214
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 1.123945 X +72.537
Correlation coefficient (r)0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.510366 X -1.189
Correlation coefficient (r)0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -9.594208 X +63.113
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.597
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.356