How do you measure

Quality of Life?
Carlos Arroyo

Hypothesis
Individuals with high incomes, gaininfully
employed, educated, and are young will
have more of a positive outlook on life
compared to those do not have share
those same attributes.

Literature Review
Center for Disease Control. (2015). CDC:Control and
Prevention. Retrieved from Health-Related Quality of Life
(HRQOL): http://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/concept.htm
Felce, D., & Perry, J. (1999). Quality of life: Its definition
and measurement. Research in Developmental
Disabilities .
World Health Organization. (2011). Scoring and Coding for
the WHOQOL SRPB Field-Test Instrument.

Literature Review

Quality of life (QOL) is the general well-being of individuals and societies. QOL has
a wide range of contexts, including the fields of international development, health
care, politics and employment.
Quality of life should not be confused with the concept of standard of living, which is
based primarily on income.
In the United States the Center for Disease Control(CDC) has a health related QOL,
which focuses on public health.

Dependent Variable
Happiness Scale
scale f

Freq.

Percent

Cum.

1 very unhappy
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 very happy

390
434
762
1,074
3,335
3,160
6,261
9,642
5,587
4,014

1.13
1.25
2.20
3.10
9.62
9.12
18.06
27.82
16.12
11.58

1.13
2.38
4.58
7.67
17.30
26.41
44.48
72.30
88.42
100.00

Total

34,659

100.00

Independent Variables
1.Education(Q-41)
2.Good Job(Q-41)
3.Economic Status(Q57)
4.Age(HH2b)

Education Summary Stats

Education

Variable
education

Obs

Mean Std. Dev.

Min

Max

34659 1.528578 .7559265

Good Job Summary Stat

Job

Variable
goodjob

Obs

Mean Std. Dev.

Min

Max

16719 1.408457 .5613272

Income Summary Stat

Income

Variable

Obs

Mean Std. Dev.

Min

Max

income

34659

3.28867 1.331716

Age Summary Stat

Age

Variable
age

Obs

Mean Std. Dev.

Min

Max

34659 3.352232 1.236082

Regression Result & Analysis