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happy: Data related to happiness from the general social survey.

Description

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 1976. We combine data for 25 years to yield 51,020 observations, and of the over 5,000 variables, we select nine related to happiness:

Usage

data(happy)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 51020 rows and 10 variables

Details

  • 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