Happiness of Europeans in relation to Time Use and Country GDPs
Matthew Prame, Justin Yuan
CSE 10001
Below are the visualization we derived from three csv files related to happiness of European people and possible factors involved
This data shows the results of a survey about happiness for citizens across 31 European countries, brighter color indicating higher score for happiness.
It seems that geographic region affects happiness for some extent. Countries in the same region tend to have similar color. For example, the Scandinavian countries all shows yellow color, indicating high level of happiness. On the other hand, countries in mid-southern Europe and the Balkans have deeper colors, indicating that they are unhappy. Reason behind this correlation may invlove regional climate and international relations.
These three pie charts show the average amount of time spent doing various activites on average by Belgians, Norwegians, and Finnishes. These are the three happiest countires for which we were able to obtain acitivity data.
From the charts we can tell that people in these three countries has a variety of daily activities, but on average they guarantee at least 8 hours of sleep and even more time for personal care. Maybe sleep and caring for others are two keys of happiness. However, even people in the unhappy countries follow similar schedule. By comparing the charts above with people from three least happy country, we may obtain some further insights.
These three pie charts show the average amount of time spent doing various activites on average by bulgarians, latvians, and italians. These are the three unhappiest countires for which we were able to obtain acitivity data.
One insight that can be drawn from this is that latvians and italians spend more time resting than Fins and Danes, so thic could be correlated to happiness. Another insight is that fins and danes have sports/outdoor activities in their 20 most time-consuming actvities, while Bulgarians and Italians do not have this in their 20 most time-consuming activities.
This graph plots each country using its average wage per capita and average happiness (out of 10). The hapiness was measured using a survey of hundreds of individuals, and the wage data came from the OECD. You can mouse over the dots to see which country corresponds to which dot.
One insight that can be drawn from this graph is that there is not a strong correlation between income and happiness. Therefore, the differences in happiness must be due to other factors, and this motivated our study of the time spent doing different activities in different countries.