HAPPINESS SCORE IDENTIFICATION: A REGRESSION APPROACH

Abstract

Happiness plays an important role in human emotion and one's growth. In this paper, we use the data from the World Happiness Report, Countries of the World, and Countries Dataset 2020 to discern the relationship the happiness score has with the economy, family, aalth, freedom, trust, perception of corruption, generosity, and residual. In our research, we used the regression approach to find the most important factors that affect the happiness score in the past five years. Since we observed a positive and moderate relationship between the residual and happiness score, we t an looked for ot ar factors that contribute to the residual, the unexplained factor. Finally, we verified the main factors to the happiness score.