data.lifesat {desk}

Life Satisfaction

Description

A data set describing the life satisfaction and per capita income in 40 countries in 2010.

Usage

data.lifesat

Format

A data frame of 40 observations with the following three variables:

country	country name.
income	country's per capita income (in dollar).
lsat	index of country's average life satisfaction.

Details

In Auer et al. (2023, Chap. 3) these data are used to illustrate the use of the simple linear regression model.

Source

Imported from World Value Survey, Inglehart et al. (2014).

References

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2023): Ökonometrie - Das R-Arbeitsbuch, 2nd ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).

Inglehart, R. et al. (2014): World Values Survey: All Rounds - Country-Pooled Datafile Version, R. Inglehart, C. Haerpfer, A. Moreno, C. Welzel, K. Kizilova, J. Diez-Medrano, M. Lagos, P. Norris, E. Ponarin & B. Puranen (eds.), Madrid: JD Systems Institute.