Brian Easton and Ryan You

SHORE, Massey University

Demographic determinants of life satisfaction

One of the influences on a person's satisfaction with life (or happiness) is each person's personal characteristics. These characteristics interact (so older women are likely to be widows; each characteristic has a different effect in contrast to youth, maleness, and married). This paper reports on the results of a 3000+ respondent survey, in which the effect of each characteristic is measured, controlled for all other characteristics.