Table 6.

Happiness estimates using European Social Surveys sweeps 1–8, 2002–2016, with controls and age < 70

	Age	T-statistic	Age2	T-statistic	N	Age minimum
Advanced countries
Austria	− 0.0619	5.63	0.00056	4.32	9,197	55
Belgium	− 0.0621	7.92	0.00066	7.37	12,256	47
Bulgaria	− 0.1931	1.51	0.00161	8.01	6,594	60
Croatia	− 0.1445	6.29	0.00129	5.01	2,413	56
Cyprus	− 0.0580	3.18	0.00061	2.93	3,702	48
Czech Republic	− 0.0772	6.94	0.00070	5.68	12,766	55
Denmark	− 0.0591	7.40	0.00066	7.44	9,153	45
Estonia	− 0.0813	7.40	0.00061	4.92	9,612	67
Finland	− 0.0633	9.01	0.00061	7.47	12,145	52
France	− 0.1013	1.65	0.00093	8.39	12,512	54
Germany	− 0.1160	15.26	0.00119	14.00	19,681	49
Great Britain	− 0.0950	11.06	0.00109	11.14	14,204	44
Greece	− 0.1188	9.14	0.00109	7.47	8,025	54
Hungary	− 0.1205	9.60	0.00104	7.31	10,877	58
Iceland	− 0.0566	3.35	0.00064	3.39	1,798	44
Ireland	− 0.0880	1.68	0.00103	11.10	15,169	43
Italy	− 0.0752	4.39	0.00071	3.63	3,874	53
Lithuania	− 0.0942	5.80	0.00072	3.92	6,443	65
Luxembourg	− 0.0810	3.97	0.00104	4.46	2,703	39
Netherlands	− 0.0651	9.18	0.00069	8.77	12,700	47
Norway	− 0.0647	8.42	0.00066	7.59	11,665	49
Poland	− 0.1034	1.01	0.00091	7.61	12,220	57
Portugal	− 0.0856	8.74	0.00072	6.54	11,185	59
Slovakia	− 0.0964	7.14	0.00090	5.82	7,231	54
Slovenia	− 0.0962	8.43	0.00075	5.72	8,876	64
Spain	− 0.0980	11.53	0.00089	9.25	12,877	55
Sweden	− 0.0630	8.18	0.00064	7.23	12,089	49
Switzerland	− 0.0598	7.70	0.00064	7.20	11,697	47
Developing countries
Israel	− 0.0892	9.74	0.00086	8.29	12,251	52
Russia	− 0.0912	7.31	0.00077	5.29	10,934	59
Turkey	− 0.1105	4.83	0.00128	4.80	3,870	43
Ukraine	− 0.1065	7.37	0.00090	5.44	7,896	59