Empirical Association between Education and Happiness in a Social Context
Empirical Association between Education and Happiness in a Social Context

Summary/Abstract: Education level and the number of school years completed have an important function in each persons’ life and are considered as one of the most important aspects of socialization, fulfillment, income level, and general happiness. In particular, the number of school years completed is an important indicator which we intend to utilize to estimate educations’ impact on one’s life in general. Differently put, among many other aspects of educations’ impact on humans’ life, this article focuses on the relation between the highest numbers of school year completed and the general happiness of a person. The purpose of the article is to find evidence that proves that the general happiness and the highest school year completed are not statistically independent. Finding the correlation between these two variables is the objective of the article. For that purpose, we analyzed the empirical data provided by the General Social Survey (GSS) by conducting a chi-square statistics test to prove the existence of a relationship between the variables. Put another way, the research intends to analyze data provided by GSS2008.dta and test the null and alternative hypothesis by using the chi-square statistics test and by applying the quantitative methodology of research. The data collected from 2,018 respondents provided by GSS are analyzed by utilizing State Software – as one of the most reliable and contemporary tools used by scientists nowadays.

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