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Question: If you were to consider your life in general, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole?
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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan5.56
2 United States5.52
3 United Kingdom5.43
4 Australia5.39
5 France 5.26
6 Sweden5.24
7 Germany5.12

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.190352 X +13.132
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.480
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.230

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 9344.002608 X +2454.146
Correlation coefficient (r)0.104
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.568449 X +95.353
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.153
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.500652 X +4.298
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 7.526076 X -29.601
Correlation coefficient (r)0.457
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.209