happy: Data related to happiness from the General Social Survey, 1972-2006.
Description
This data extract is taken from Hadley Wickham's productplots package.
The original description follows, with minor edits.
Format
A data frame with 51020 rows and 10 variablesDetails
The data is a small sample of variables related to
happiness from the General Social Survey (GSS). The GSS
is a yearly cross-sectional survey of Americans, run from
1972. We combine data for 25 years to yield 51,020
observations, and of the over 5,000 variables, we select
nine related to happiness:
- age. age in years: 18--89.
- degree. highest education: lt high school, high school, junior college, bachelor, graduate.
- finrela. relative financial status: far above, above average, average, below average, far below.
- happy. happiness: very happy, pretty happy, not too happy.
- health. health: excellent, good, fair, poor.
- marital. marital status: married, never married, divorced, widowed, separated.
- sex. sex: female, male.
- wtsall. probability weight. 0.43--6.43.
References
Smith, Tom W., Peter V. Marsden, Michael Hout, Jibum Kim. General Social Surveys, 1972-2006.
[machine-readable data file]. Principal Investigator, Tom W. Smith; Co-Principal Investigators,
Peter V. Marsden and Michael Hout, NORC ed.
Chicago: National Opinion Research Center, producer, 2005;
Storrs, CT: The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut, distributor.
1 data file (57,061 logical records) and 1 codebook (3,422 pp).