Dataset: happiness
Generated on: 2025-08-05
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happiness              package:wooldridge              R Documentation

happiness

Description:

     Wooldridge Data loads lazily.

Usage:

     data('happiness')
     
Format:

     A data.frame with 17137 observations on 33 variables:

        • *year:* gss year for this respondent

        • *workstat:* work force status

        • *prestige:* occupational prestige score

        • *divorce:* ever been divorced or separated

        • *widowed:* ever been widowed

        • *educ:* highest year of school completed

        • *reg16:* region of residence, age 16

        • *babies:* household members less than 6 yrs old

        • *preteen:* household members 6 thru 12 yrs old

        • *teens:* household members 13 thru 17 yrs old

        • *income:* total family income

        • *region:* region of interview

        • *attend:* how often r attends religious services

        • *happy:* general happiness

        • *owngun:* =1 if own gun

        • *tvhours:* hours per day watching tv

        • *vhappy:* =1 if 'very happy'

        • *mothfath16:* =1 if live with mother and father at 16

        • *black:* =1 if black

        • *gwbush04:* =1 if voted for G.W. Bush in 2004

        • *female:* =1 if female

        • *blackfemale:* black*female

        • *gwbush00:* =1 if voted for G.W. Bush in 2000

        • *occattend:* =1 if attend is 3, 4, or 5

        • *regattend:* =1 if attend is 6, 7, or 8

        • *y94:* =1 if year == 1994

        • *y96:*

        • *y98:*

        • *y00:*

        • *y02:*

        • *y04:*

        • *y06:* =1 if year == 2006

        • *unem10:* =1 if unemployed in last 10 years

Source:

     <https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041>

Examples:

      str(happiness)