stubbsdiondra/Subjective-Wellbeing-Africa-2020

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This project analyzes the 2020 World Happiness Report to draw conclusions about the general well being of Africa. The report generates a data set consisting of over 150 countries and their happiness scores, freedom to make life choices, social support, healthy life expectancy, regional indicator, perceptions of corruption and generosity. This analysis was done to answer the following data-driven questions: 'Which African country ranked the happiest in 2020?' and 'Which variable predicts or explains a country's happiness score?' # THE HAPPINESS OF AFRICA ## What is the general state of happiness in Africa? This project analyzes the 2020 World Happiness Report to draw conclusions about the general well being of Africa. It uses several CSV files consisting of survey responses formed from a Google Form survey, data from the 2020 World Happiness Report and data on countries only in Africa from the 2020 World Happiness Report. The main data set used includes over 150 countries and their happiness scores, freedom to make life choices, social support, healthy life expectancy, regional indicator, perceptions of corruption and generosity. This analysis was done to answer the following data-driven questions: 'Which African country ranked the happiest in 2020?' and 'Which variable predicts or explains Africa's happiness score?' This project includes several programs created in R and Python. (all created by Diondra Stubbs) ## Background The Gallup World Poll (GWP) is conducted annually to measure and track public attitudes concerning political, social and economic issues, including controversial and sensitive subjects. Annually, this poll tracks attitudes toward law and order, institutions and infrastructure, jobs, well-being and other topics for approximately 150 countries worldwide. The data gathered from the GWP is used to create an annual World Happiness Report (WHR). The World Happiness Report is conducted to review the science of understanding and measuring the subjective well-being and to use survey measures of life satisfaction to track the quality of lives in over 150 countries. At first glance, it seems that world happiness isn't important or maybe it's just an emotional thing. However, several governments have started to look at happiness as a metric to measure success. Happiness Scores or Subjective Well-being (SWB) are national average responses to questions of life evaluation. They are important because they remind policy makers and people in power that happiness is based on socia …

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