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data.lifesat: Life Satisfaction

Description

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

Usage

data.lifesat

Arguments

Format

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

countrycountry name.
incomecountry's per capita income (in dollar).
lsatindex of country's average life satisfaction.

Details

In Auer et al. (2024, Chap. 3) these data are used to illustrate the use of the simple linear regression model.

References

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2024): 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.