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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico5.58
2 Japan5.56
3 Austria5.54
3 Chile5.54
5 Switzerland5.52
5 United States5.52
7 New Zealand5.48
8 United Kingdom5.43
9 Australia5.39
10 Denmark5.35
10 Ireland5.35
12 Israel5.32
13 Norway5.29
14 Netherlands5.28
15 Finland 5.26
15 France5.26
17 Spain5.24
17 Sweden5.24
19 Belgium5.20
20 Slovenia5.18
21 Portugal5.15
22 Germany5.12
23 Czech Republic5.03
24 Hungary4.99
25 Poland4.97
26 Slovakia4.88
27 Latvia4.85

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.645995 X +3.378
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 45721.814312 X -194411.073
Correlation coefficient (r)0.369
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.136

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 6.401575 X +46.309
Correlation coefficient (r)0.366
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.134

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.071574 X +1.257
Correlation coefficient (r)0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -2.938989 X +25.500
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046