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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 Japan 5.56
2 United States5.52
3 United Kingdom5.43
4 Australia5.39
5 France5.26
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. 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 = -1.420795 X +14.505
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.527
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.278

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1795.697523 X +43943.633
Correlation coefficient (r)0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.501956 X +84.333
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.406780 X +3.772
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.438
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.192

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 3.050847 X -3.124
Correlation coefficient (r)0.178
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032