Note that the means of the dummy variables correspond to the shares of these categories in
overall answers to the respective question, e.g. an average of 0.53 for “female” implies that
53% of the relevant respondents are female and 47% are male.
Table 1: Summary statistics for data used in ordered logit model (5592 cases)
|
Variables |
Mean |
St. Dev. |
Min. value |
Max. value |
Correlation |
|
Life satisfaction (happiness) |
2.14 |
0.63 |
1 |
3 |
1.00 |
|
Age effect: | |||||
|
Age |
46.49 |
15.87 |
18 |
89 |
0.01 |
|
Age squared |
2413.63 |
1527.97 |
324 |
7921 |
0.01 |
|
Gender effect: | |||||
|
Female |
0.53 |
0.50 |
0 |
1 |
-0.01 |
|
Marital status: | |||||
|
Single |
0.13 |
0.33 |
0 |
1 |
-0.03 |
|
Married |
0.75 |
0.43 |
0 |
1 |
0.09 |
|
Divorced |
0.04 |
0.20 |
0 |
1 |
-0.08 |
|
Widowed |
0.09 |
0.28 |
0 |
1 |
-0.05 |
|
Education: | |||||
|
Primary school |
0.39 |
0.49 |
0 |
1 |
-0.09 |
|
Vocational training |
0.24 |
0.43 |
0 |
1 |
0.04 |
|
Secondary school |
0.28 |
0.45 |
0 |
1 |
0.02 |
|
University |
0.09 |
0.28 |
0 |
1 |
0.06 |
|
Type of employment: | |||||
|
Household, student |
0.04 |
0.19 |
0 |
1 |
0.03 |
|
Full-time employee |
0.59 |
0.49 |
0 |
1 |
0.05 |
|
Part-time employee |
0.01 |
0.12 |
0 |
1 |
-0.02 |
|
Family helper |
0.004 |
0.06 |
0 |
1 |
0.01 |
|
Apprentice |
0.001 |
0.03 |
0 |
1 |
-0.01 |
|
Unemployed |
0.06 |
0.24 |
0 |
1 |
-0.12 |
|
Pensioner |
0.26 |
0.44 |
0 |
1 |
-0.01 |
|
Allowance |
0.02 |
0.16 |
0 |
1 |
0.03 |
|
Widow pension |
0.01 |
0.09 |
0 |
1 |
-0.03 |
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