Table 3
Distribution of General Social Survey and Canadian Community Health Survey respondents on the life satisfaction scale

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Distribution of General Social Survey and Canadian Community Health Survey respondents on the life satisfaction scale
Table summary
This table displays the percent distribution of valid responses to the life satisfaction question. The row headers list the response category from 0 to 10. The column headers display the survey name and survey year.
Life satisfaction scores General Social Survey Canadian Community Health Survey
2003 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2009 2010 2011
  percent
0 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4
1 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.6 1.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1
2 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.7 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4
3 0.8 0.9 0.9 1.0 0.6 1.2 0.5 0.7 0.7 0.8
4 1.1 1.5 1.4 1.4 1.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.2
5 5.7 6.2 4.8 6.4 4.3 7.5 4.5 5.3 5.5 5.0
6 5.8 8.0 5.7 5.7 3.5 8.0 5.2 5.1 5.2 5.2
7 17.5 19.6 16.4 16.8 12.6 19.3 15.2 16.2 15.9 16.6
8 31.6 31.6 31.1 31.0 29.8 31.1 31.1 32.9 33.3 33.5
9 19.3 17.2 20.5 15.9 17.7 14.6 18.9 18.6 19.5 19.0
10 17.0 14.0 18.2 20.6 29.7 14.6 22.6 19.1 18.1 17.7
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, General Social Survey and Canadian Community Health Survey, selected years.
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