The World Happiness Report is a survey of happiness in individual countries. It started from a United Nations meeting about well-being and happiness around the world. The survey generates happiness rankings using data from the Gallup World Poll, where people rate their overall quality of life (the variable containing the evaluations is the life ladder variable). The data can be found on the World Happiness Report website under the downloads section (https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/). Apart from the Life Ladder, the dataset also contains a number of other factors. The ones we will focus on are as follows:
- Log GDP per capita
- Social support
- Healthy life expectancy at birth
- Freedom to make life choices
- Generosity
- Perceptions of corruption
- Positive affect (average of happiness, laughter, and enjoyment)
- Negative affect (average of worry...
