Table 2.

Correlations between size of government and average happiness, Zero-order and partial correlations, controlled for technical and democratic quality

Government size	Correlations between the size of government and average happiness in nations
	N	Zero-order correlation	Partial correlation controlled for technical quality of government	Partial correlation controlled for democratic quality of government
Government consumption	116	+0.46	+0.14	+0.30
Government expenditures	125	+0.51	+0.17	+0.28