Table 5. Split-sample estimations: respondents who are married/in common-law partnerships (sample A) v.s. the rest (sample B) - the Happiness Monitor survey.
| Ladder | Satisfaction | Happiness | ||||
| A | B | A | B | A | B | |
| Real-life friends: 10–20 | 0.12 | 0.55 | 0.38 | 0.74 | 0.4 | 0.77 |
| (0.08) | (0.12)*** | (0.11)*** | (0.17)*** | (0.1)*** | (0.15)*** | |
| Real-life friends: 20–30 | 0.04 | 0.8 | 0.36 | 1.23 | 0.42 | 1.16 |
| (0.11) | (0.17)*** | (0.17)** | (0.24)*** | (0.14)*** | (0.22)*** | |
| Real-life friends: 30 or more | 0.14 | 0.72 | 0.24 | 0.87 | 0.44 | 1.12 |
| (0.14) | (0.18)*** | (0.18) | (0.26)*** | (0.18)** | (0.22)*** | |
| Online friends: 1–100 | −.20 | −.004 | −.19 | −.05 | −.15 | −.03 |
| (0.08)** | (0.14) | (0.12) | (0.2) | (0.11) | (0.18) | |
| Online friends: 100–300 | −.16 | −.17 | −.10 | −.24 | −.05 | 0.14 |
| (0.11) | (0.18) | (0.17) | (0.26) | (0.16) | (0.24) | |
| Online friends: 300 or more | −.20 | −.18 | −.49 | −.14 | 0.05 | 0.18 |
| (0.21) | (0.21) | (0.26)* | (0.29) | (0.22) | (0.28) | |
| Logged income | 0.49 | 0.4 | 0.39 | 0.44 | 0.43 | 0.17 |
| (0.07)*** | (0.1)*** | (0.09)*** | (0.13)*** | (0.09)*** | (0.12) | |
| Income unknown | 0.33 | −.16 | 0.12 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0.0006 |
| (0.09)*** | (0.16) | (0.14) | (0.21) | (0.14) | (0.19) | |
| Male | −.17 | −.11 | 0.06 | −.20 | −.18 | −.22 |
| (0.07)** | (0.11) | (0.1) | (0.15) | (0.1)* | (0.13) | |
| Age | −.05 | −.12 | −.09 | −.13 | −.10 | −.08 |
| (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.03)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | |
| Age squared/100 | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.15 | 0.11 | 0.1 |
| (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.03)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | |
| Marital status: common-law | −.01 | −.21 | 0.11 | |||
| (0.09) | (0.13) | (0.12) | ||||
| Marital status: dating | 0.68 | 0.31 | 0.72 | |||
| (0.2)*** | (0.28) | (0.26)*** | ||||
| Marital status: single | 0.37 | 0.005 | 0.17 | |||
| (0.14)*** | (0.19) | (0.18) | ||||
| Some post-secondary | −.02 | 0.03 | −.06 | 0.05 | −.10 | −.24 |
| (0.11) | (0.16) | (0.15) | (0.22) | (0.13) | (0.19) | |
| University degrees | 0.06 | 0.11 | −.006 | 0.007 | −.26 | −.15 |
| (0.09) | (0.15) | (0.12) | (0.2) | (0.12)** | (0.18) | |
| Unemployed | −.62 | −1.38 | −.71 | −1.59 | −.39 | −1.10 |
| (0.26)** | (0.25)*** | (0.3)** | (0.35)*** | (0.28) | (0.33)*** | |
| Exercise per week; hours | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.09 |
| (0.02)*** | (0.03)** | (0.03)*** | (0.04)** | (0.03)*** | (0.04)** | |
| Volunteer or contribute to charity | 0.31 | 0.4 | 0.64 | 0.43 | 0.43 | 1 |
| (0.08)*** | (0.11)*** | (0.11)*** | (0.16)*** | (0.11)*** | (0.14)*** | |
| Obs. | 2858 | 1570 | 3008 | 1655 | 3037 | 1685 |
| R 2 | 0.13 | 0.18 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.06 | 0.12 |
Notes: Standard errors in parentheses. *, **, and *** indicate statistical significance at 90 percent, 95 percent and 99 percent levels.