Q. Thinking about your own personal situation, do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
| Total agree | Total disagree | Strongly agree | Agree | Neither agree nor disagree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Jun 2017 Agree | |||
| I am happy in my personal/family life | 73% | 10% | 26% | 47% | 17% | 7% | 2% | 79% | ||
| I am happy in my life overall | 70% | 10% | 21% | 49% | 19% | 7% | 3% | 74% | ||
| I am happy in my social life | 66% | 12% | 19% | 47% | 22% | 10% | 2% | 71% | ||
| I am happy in my spiritual life | 56% | 7% | 18% | 39% | 36% | 5% | 2% | 62% | ||
| I am happy in my work life | 42% | 17% | 10% | 32% | 41% | 12% | 5% | 52% |
All but one statement (I am happy in my work life) received majority agreement. The area in which happiness was the highest was personal/family life, in which 73% were happy, while the area in which happiness was lowest overall was work life, in which 42% were happy.
People in WA were least happy with their work life (with 15% strongly disagreeing with the statement) and their lives overall (10% strongly disagreeing with statement).
All areas have seen a decline in happiness since 2017, with the proportion of people agreeing they are happy with their work life declining by 10%pts (from 52%) and spiritual life declining 6%pts.
Additional breakdowns of this question are on the following page.
Additional table
This table provides a cross-tabulation of the proportion who “very strongly” agreed with each statement across a number of demographics.
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Green | Vote Other | Male | Female | Earn <$78k | Earn >$78k | 18-34 | 35-54 | 55+ | |
| I am happy in my personal/family life | 26% | 25% | 32% | 20% | 25% | 26% | 27% | 21% | 32% | 25% | 23% | 32% |
| I am happy in my social life | 19% | 19% | 22% | 12% | 22% | 20% | 18% | 16% | 22% | 17% | 16% | 25% |
| I am happy in my work life | 10% | 9% | 14% | 4% | 9% | 10% | 9% | 7% | 14% | 9% | 9% | 10% |
| I am happy in my spiritual life | 18% | 15% | 21% | 17% | 21% | 17% | 18% | 16% | 20% | 16% | 17% | 21% |
| I am happy in my life overall | 21% | 21% | 23% | 17% | 24% | 22% | 21% | 18% | 25% | 19% | 17% | 30% |
Liberal voters are more likely to strongly agree (14%) that they are happy in their work life, than voters of other parties.
Those with a household income of more than $78,000 are more likely to be happy in their life overall (25%), their personal/family life (32%), their social life (22%) and their work life (14%).
People aged 55 and over are more likely to strongly agree that they are happy with their life overall than those aged under 55 (30% vs. 19%).