The General Social Survey (GSS) is a yearly cross-sectional survey of Americans, run since 1972. This data set is a small subset of the over 5000 variables collected in the GSS. We combine data since 1972 to yield more than 50 thousand observations, for some variables that are related to happiness:
data(happy)A data frame with 62466 rows and 11 variables
age. age in years: 18--89 (89 stands for all 89 year olds and older).
degree. highest education: lt high school, high school, junior college, bachelor, graduate.
finrela. how is your financial status compared to others: far below, below average, average, above average, far above.
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.
polviews. from extremely conservative to extremely liberal.
partyid. party identification: strong republican, not str republican, ind near rep, independent, ind near dem, not str democrat, strong democrat, other party.
wtsall. probability weight. 0.39--8.74