Table 11.

Happiness estimates using ISSP 2012 with controls for gender, education, marital and labor force status, and age < 70

	Age	T-statistic	Age2	T-statistic	N	Age minimum
Advanced
Australia	− 0.0240	1.51	0.0002	1.50	1,297	60
Belgium	− 0.0490	3.20	0.0005	3.02	1,794	49
Canada	− 0.0537	2.33	0.0004	1.94	735	67
Finland	− 0.0402	2.24	0.0003	1.91	1,054	67
France	− 0.0432	2.85	0.0003	1.85	1,926	72
Germany	− 0.0430	3.31	0.0003	2.61	1,450	72
Iceland	− 0.0298	2.04	0.0003	1.78	1,040	50
Japan	− 0.0584	2.59	0.0004	1.91	982	73
Netherlands	− 0.0626	3.43	0.0005	2.87	1,021	63
Norway	− 0.0495	3.22	0.0004	2.79	1,292	62
Spain	− 0.0839	6.58	0.0008	5.66	2,161	52
Sweden	− 0.0372	1.83	0.0003	1.52	873	62
UK	− 0.0369	1.69	0.0003	1.56	748	62
USA	− 0.0411	2.58	0.0004	2.49	1,109	51
Eastern Europe
Bulgaria	− 0.0737	3.20	0.0005	2.03	794	74
Croatia	− 0.0774	3.93	0.0006	2.92	915	65
Czech Republic	− 0.0635	3.5	0.0005	2.69	1,596	64
Hungary	− 0.0794	3.84	0.0007	3.30	890	57
Latvia	− 0.0800	4.29	0.0007	3.07	953	57
Lithuania	− 0.1161	6.39	0.0011	5.76	1,004	53
Poland	− 0.0733	3.95	0.0007	3.54	964	52
Slovakia	− 0.0868	3.89	0.0008	3.27	968	54
Slovenia	− 0.0819	3.52	0.0007	2.87	832	59
Developing
Chile	− 0.0399	2.87	0.0004	2.85	1,335	45
China	− 0.0760	8.64	0.0008	8.59	5,287	46
Israel	− 0.0678	3.69	0.0006	3.00	1,049	54
Mexico	− 0.0225	1.56	0.0002	1.33	1,379	49
Russia	− 0.0485	2.93	0.0005	2.43	1,249	50
South Africa	− 0.0584	3.46	0.0006	3.31	2,316	44
South Korea	− 0.0659	2.92	0.0005	2.51	1,135	55
Taiwan	− 0.0468	3.00	0.0005	3.03	1,838	43