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Volume 111 Issue 473 (July 2001)

Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory

Richard A. Easterlin

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TABLE 1 and FIGURES 1 and 3: National Opinion Research Center (1999). General Social Surveys, 1972-1998: Cumulative Codebook. Chicago: National Opinion Research Center.

The data utilized is included as a compressed (zip) comma-separated Ascii file labeled 'happy.zip'.

TABLE 2, Basic data appear in: Cantril, H. (1965). The Pattern of Human Concerns. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

TABLE 3, Basic data appear in: Bachman, J.G., L.D. Johnston, and P.M. O'Malley (1980). Monitoring the Future: Questionnaire Responses from the Nation's High School Seniors, 1976. Ann Arbor, MI: Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research.

TABLES 4 and 5, Basic data appear in: Roper-Starch Organization (1979). Roper Reports 79-I. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, The Roper Center. Roper-Starch Organization (1995). Roper Reports 95-I. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, The Roper Center.

Table 4 is derived from the following:

Early life cycle Mid life cycle
Start End Start End

Mean number of Consumer Goods Desired:

a. Schooling greater than 12 years 4.3 5.7 4.4 5.7
b. Schooling 12 years or less 4.4 5.4 4.3 5.2
Mean number of Consumer Goods Owned:

a. Schooling greater than 12 years 1.8 3.4 2.8 3.8
b. Schooling 12 years or less 1.7 2.8 2.3 2.7
The data utilized for Table 5 are included as comma-separated Ascii files labled 'tglT579.csv' and 'tglT595.csv'. Data dictionaries for those files are as follows:

dictionary tglT579.csv {
float year
float age "AGE"
byte pgl_home "PGL_HOME"
byte pgl_yard "PGL_YARD"
byte pgl_car "PGL_CAR"
byte pgl_2car "PGL_2CAR"
byte pgl_vhom "PGL_VHOM"
byte pgl_swim "PGL_SWIM"
byte pgl_swim "PGL_SWIM"
byte pgl_clth "PGL_CLTH"
byte pgl_tv "PGL_TV"
byte pgl_2tv "PGL_2TV"
int inc_79 "INC_79"
double inc_94 "INC_94"
float ln_inc94 "LN_INC94"
}

dictionary tglT595.csv {
float year float age "AGE"
byte pgl_home "PGL_HOME"
byte pgl_yard "PGL_YARD"
byte pgl_car "PGL_CAR"
byte pgl_2car "PGL_2CAR"
byte pgl_vhom "PGL_VHOM"
byte pgl_swim "PGL_SWIM"
byte pgl_swim "PGL_SWIM"
byte pgl_clth "PGL_CLTH"
byte pgl_tv "PGL_TV"
byte pgl_2tv "PGL_2TV"
double income "INCOME"
}

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