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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States5.50
2 Canada5.46
3 Australia5.43
4 United Kingdom5.39
5 Germany5.26
6 Sweden5.25
7 Japan5.23
8 France 5.20
9 Republic of Korea4.86

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.293722 X -0.148
Correlation coefficient (r)0.597
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.356

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 56475.806808 X -247988.654
Correlation coefficient (r)0.770
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.593

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.222370 X +114.807
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.499
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.249

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.079686 X -4.203
Correlation coefficient (r)0.692
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.479

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -13.332670 X +82.338
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.621
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.386