Table 1 Countries/regions within each culture.

From: Identifying the top predictors of student well-being across cultures using machine learning and conventional statistics

Culture

Sample size

Number of countries/regions

Ratio of females (%)

Countries/regions within each cultural group

Western Europe

119,910

15

49.2

Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Malta

East Central Europe

64,388

11

49.5

Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kosovo, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Lithuania

East Europe

95,922

14

51.6

Georgia, Kazakhstan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Bulgaria, Belarus, Montenegro, Ukraine, Moscow Region (RUS), Tatarstan (RUS), Serbia, Baku (Azerbaijan), Russian Federation

Latin America

68,323

9

50.9

Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Peru, Uruguay

English-speaking

24,233

3

50.1

Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Confucian

41,872

6

49.0

Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Korea, Macao SAR, B-S-J-Z (Mainland China)

Southeast Asia

46,280

6

52.1

Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand

Africa and Middle East

61,908

7

49.4

Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon-Western Asia

  1. B–S–J–Z refers to Beijing–Shanghai–Jiangsu–Zhejiang which are all part of Mainland China. SAR refers to Special Autonomous Region.
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