| Full text in English | 
| Language study | Response options | ||||||||
| study code | N 
 | not at all happy | not very happy | quite happy | very happy | ||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
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Standard question in World Value Surveys. English version changed since wave 5 (2005) from ‘quite happy’ (version 4a) to ‘rather happy).