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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 Ireland 5.35
12 Israel5.32
13 Norway5.29
14 Netherlands5.28
15 Finland5.26
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. 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 = 0.732152 X +2.975
Correlation coefficient (r)0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 45523.969199 X -193764.707
Correlation coefficient (r)0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 6.035834 X +48.651
Correlation coefficient (r)0.475
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.226

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.172789 X +0.699
Correlation coefficient (r)0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -5.941681 X +43.997
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107