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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:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan5.56
2 United States5.52
3 United Kingdom5.43
4 France 5.26
5 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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.709481 X +10.405
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.514
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.264

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.766017 X +10.692
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 8778.898007 X +7217.487
Correlation coefficient (r)0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.674091 X +77.775
Correlation coefficient (r)0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.182737 X +2.469
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 12.144490 X -53.775
Correlation coefficient (r)0.743
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.552