The Happiness Investigation project delves into understanding the determinants of general happiness among individuals. This exploration is facilitated by a dataset sourced from the General Social Survey (GSS), which contains a rich array of socio-economic variables. By analyzing this dataset, the project aims to uncover the factors associated with varying levels of happiness.

The dataset comprises 17137 observations across 33 variables:

• year: year for each respondent
• workstat: Workforce status
• prestige: Occupational prestige score
• divorce: Ever been divorced or separated
• widowed: Ever been widowed
• educ: Highest year of school completed
• reg16: Region of residence at age 16
• babies: Household members less than 6 years old
• preteen: Household members 6 thru 12 years old
• teens: Household members 13 thru 17 years old
• income: Total family income
• region: Region of interview
• attend: How often respondent attends religious services
• happy: General happiness
• owngun: Equals 1 if respondent owns a gun
• tvhours: Hours per day spent watching TV
• vhappy: Equals 1 if respondent is 'very happy'
• mothfath16: Equals 1 if respondent lived with mother and father at 16
• black: Equals 1 if respondent is black
• gwbush04: Equals 1 if respondent voted for G.W. Bush in 2004
• female: Equals 1 if respondent is female
• blackfemale: Interaction between black and female
• gwbush00: Equals 1 if respondent voted for G.W. Bush in 2000
• occattend: Equals 1 if attend is 3, 4, or 5
• regattend: Equals 1 if attend is 6, 7, or 8
• y94: Equals 1 if year == 1994
• y96, y98, y00, y02, y04, y06: Binary indicators for respective years
• unem10: Equals 1 if respondent was unemployed in the last 10 years

The dataset is sourced from the textbook "Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 5th Edition, 2013". It is available in the CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network) as open-source data.

The dataset is distributed under the terms specified by its source. For detailed licensing information, refer to the source material mentioned above.