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**TAKING PART SURVEY** This data shows satisfaction with life in general across a number of groups. The exact question posed to repondents was: 'Taking all things together, how happy would you say you are'. The scale for answers is between 1 (very unhappy) to 10 (extremely happy). Breakdowns presented include age, gender, ethnicity, employment status, having children, tenure, social interactions, satisfaction with neighbourhood and donating to charity. Read [summary report](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/londondatastore-upload/update-17-2011-happiness-taking-part.pdf) of the key findings for 2010/11. See all the [Charts](https://londondatastore-upload.s3.amazonaws.com/happiness-graphs1.html) online  The borough level data shows combined scores from 3 years of the survey, excluding 2009/10 when there was no happiness question in the survey. The combined score was calculated by totalling all valid repsonses across these three years. The base is the total number of valid responses over the whole period ('valid' excludes people who refused the question or answered 'dont know'). This piece of research is related to [London Ward Well-being Scores](/datastore/package/london-ward-well-being-scores) and [Subjective Personal Well-being, Borough](http://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/subjective-personal-well-being-borough)