Table 7. Regressions by population sub-groups with life ladder as the dependent variable - the Happiness Monitor survey.
| male | female | age1634 | age3549 | age5064 | age65up | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | |
| Real-life friends: 10–20 | 0.28 | 0.29 | 0.39 | 0.21 | 0.19 | 0.32 |
| (0.09)*** | (0.1)*** | (0.15)*** | (0.17) | (0.09)** | (0.13)** | |
| Real-life friends: 20–30 | 0.31 | 0.33 | 0.37 | 0.13 | 0.38 | 0.29 |
| (0.13)** | (0.14)** | (0.19)** | (0.27) | (0.14)*** | (0.17)* | |
| Real-life friends: 30 or more | 0.45 | 0.26 | 0.38 | 0.12 | 0.34 | 0.86 |
| (0.15)*** | (0.17) | (0.22)* | (0.24) | (0.17)** | (0.22)*** | |
| Online friends: 1–100 | −.25 | −.04 | −.09 | −.21 | −.18 | −.02 |
| (0.09)*** | (0.11) | (0.24) | (0.19) | (0.09)** | (0.12) | |
| Online friends: 100–300 | −.27 | −.06 | −.13 | −.10 | −.03 | −.44 |
| (0.13)** | (0.15) | (0.23) | (0.2) | (0.15) | (0.26)* | |
| Online friends: 300 or more | −.25 | −.18 | −.02 | −1.00 | 0.003 | 0.31 |
| (0.19) | (0.21) | (0.26) | (0.33)*** | (0.28) | (0.71) | |
| Logged income | 0.55 | 0.33 | 0.19 | 0.55 | 0.6 | 0.58 |
| (0.08)*** | (0.09)*** | (0.14) | (0.15)*** | (0.08)*** | (0.12)*** | |
| Income unknown | 0.16 | 0.15 | −.05 | −.05 | 0.32 | 0.43 |
| (0.13) | (0.11) | (0.2) | (0.25) | (0.11)*** | (0.14)*** | |
| Male | 0.02 | −.36 | −.24 | −.03 | ||
| (0.14) | (0.15)** | (0.08)*** | (0.12) | |||
| Age | −.10 | −.06 | −.66 | −.11 | −.56 | 0.48 |
| (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.14)*** | (0.35) | (0.3)* | (0.37) | |
| Age squared/100 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 1.20 | 0.14 | 0.54 | −.31 |
| (0.02)*** | (0.02)*** | (0.28)*** | (0.42) | (0.26)** | (0.25) | |
| Marital status: married | 0.74 | 0.76 | 1.19 | 0.95 | 0.86 | 0.25 |
| (0.14)*** | (0.14)*** | (0.45)*** | (0.31)*** | (0.13)*** | (0.15) | |
| Marital status: common-law | 0.73 | 0.7 | 1.29 | 0.84 | 0.8 | 0.37 |
| (0.17)*** | (0.17)*** | (0.46)*** | (0.33)** | (0.18)*** | (0.24) | |
| Marital status: dating | 0.82 | 0.53 | 0.95 | 0.65 | 1.04 | 0.38 |
| (0.29)*** | (0.25)** | (0.48)** | (0.62) | (0.38)*** | (1.62) | |
| Marital status: single | 0.27 | 0.32 | 0.67 | 0.62 | 0.24 | 0.19 |
| (0.18) | (0.18)* | (0.45) | (0.35)* | (0.17) | (0.27) | |
| Some post-secondary | −.16 | 0.14 | 0.15 | −.0002 | −.06 | −.02 |
| (0.12) | (0.13) | (0.2) | (0.24) | (0.12) | (0.16) | |
| University degrees | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0.5 | −.05 | −.02 | 0.09 |
| (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.21)** | (0.21) | (0.1) | (0.14) | |
| Unemployed | −1.11 | −1.00 | −.89 | −1.14 | −1.18 | 2.11 |
| (0.25)*** | (0.27)*** | (0.35)** | (0.35)*** | (0.23)*** | (0.21)*** | |
| Exercise per week; hours | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.1 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.1 |
| (0.02)*** | (0.03)*** | (0.04)*** | (0.04) | (0.02)*** | (0.03)*** | |
| Volunteer or contribute to charity | 0.34 | 0.37 | 0.46 | 0.32 | 0.31 | 0.23 |
| (0.09)*** | (0.1)*** | (0.13)*** | (0.14)** | (0.1)*** | (0.15) | |
| Obs. | 2391 | 2037 | 946 | 728 | 1854 | 900 |
| R 2 | 0.21 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 0.19 | 0.12 |
Notes: Standard errors in parentheses. *, **, and *** indicate statistical significance at 90 percent, 95 percent and 99 percent levels.