Table 4. Regressions with alternative measures of SWB: Life satisfaction and happiness - the Happiness Monitor survey.
Satisfaction | Satisfaction | Happiness | Happiness | |
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
Real-life friends: 10–20 | 0.51 | 0.54 | ||
(0.09)*** | (0.09)*** | |||
Real-life friends: 20–30 | 0.67 | 0.69 | ||
(0.14)*** | (0.12)*** | |||
Real-life friends: 30 or more | 0.48 | 0.7 | ||
(0.15)*** | (0.14)*** | |||
Online friends: 1–100 | −.16 | −.13 | ||
(0.1) | (0.1) | |||
Online friends: 100–300 | −.18 | 0.02 | ||
(0.14) | (0.13) | |||
Online friends: 300 or more | −.30 | 0.09 | ||
(0.19) | (0.18) | |||
Size of network: Real-life friends | 0.29 | 0.37 | ||
(0.06)*** | (0.05)*** | |||
Size of network: Online friends | −.04 | −.004 | ||
(0.02)* | (0.02) | |||
Logged income | 0.42 | 0.42 | 0.33 | 0.33 |
(0.08)*** | (0.08)*** | (0.07)*** | (0.07)*** | |
Income unknown | 0.08 | 0.08 | −.04 | −.05 |
(0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | |
Male | −.07 | −.08 | −.20 | −.21 |
(0.09) | (0.09) | (0.08)*** | (0.08)*** | |
Age | −.11 | −.11 | −.08 | −.09 |
(0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.01)*** | |
Age2/100 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.1 | 0.11 |
(0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | |
Marital status: married | 0.76 | 0.75 | 0.6 | 0.59 |
(0.13)*** | (0.13)*** | (0.12)*** | (0.12)*** | |
Marital status: common-law | 0.59 | 0.58 | 0.77 | 0.76 |
(0.17)*** | (0.17)*** | (0.15)*** | (0.15)*** | |
Marital status: dating | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.56 | 0.56 |
(0.25) | (0.25) | (0.23)** | (0.23)** | |
Marital status: single | −.25 | −.27 | −.01 | −.02 |
(0.17) | (0.17) | (0.16) | (0.16) | |
Some post-secondary | −.01 | −.01 | −.17 | −.16 |
(0.13) | (0.13) | (0.11) | (0.11) | |
University degrees | −.03 | −.02 | −.23 | −.22 |
(0.11) | (0.11) | (0.1)** | (0.1)** | |
Unemployed | −1.19 | −1.19 | −.78 | −.78 |
(0.24)*** | (0.24)*** | (0.23)*** | (0.23)*** | |
Exercise per week; hours | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
(0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | |
Volunteer or contribute to charity | 0.58 | 0.58 | 0.47 | 0.47 |
(0.09)*** | (0.09)*** | (0.08)*** | (0.09)*** | |
Obs. | 4663 | 4663 | 4722 | 4722 |
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0.12 | 0.12 | 0.1 | 0.09 |
Notes: Standard errors in parentheses. *, **, and *** indicate statistical significance at 90 percent, 95 percent and 99 percent levels.