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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 States5.45
2 Australia5.34
3 United Kingdom5.26
4 Japan 5.23
5 Germany5.18
5 Sweden5.18
7 France5.01
8 Republic of Korea4.82
9 Italy4.69

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.126750 X +0.957
Correlation coefficient (r)0.554
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.307

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 41083.923637 X -161242.213
Correlation coefficient (r)0.810
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.656

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.649595 X +100.629
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.429
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.184

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.708802 X -2.166
Correlation coefficient (r)0.595
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.354

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.407102 X +31.686
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018