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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:
33 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 Philippines5.61
12 New Zealand5.60
13 Norway5.55
13 Slovenia5.55
13 Sweden5.55
16 Cyprus5.54
16 Germany5.54
18 Japan 5.52
19 Netherlands5.50
20 Spain5.48
21 Belgium5.47
22 Portugal5.44
23 Finland5.43
24 Taiwan5.38
25 Poland5.37
26 France5.33
27 Brazil5.31
28 Hungary5.30
29 Czech Republic5.14
30 Slovakia5.06
31 Russian Federation4.99
32 Latvia4.96
33 Bulgaria4.88

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.092279 X +0.658
Correlation coefficient (r)0.526
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.277

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 46899.404616 X -215589.613
Correlation coefficient (r)0.457
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.209

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 7.898021 X +35.623
Correlation coefficient (r)0.445
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.198

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.257715 X +0.239
Correlation coefficient (r)0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -5.231100 X +38.391
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.351
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.123