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This study contains the datasets for the exercises of the textbook: Layard, R. and De Neve, J-E. (2023) 'Wellbeing: Science and Policy', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009298926. The datasets are extracted from SN 6614 Understanding Society: Waves 1-11, 2009-2020 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009.  Should any queries arise in regard to these teaching datasets, they should be directed to the authors of the book. These datasets are not maintained by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), the producer of the main Understanding Society study. 

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Variables include: Age; Life satisfaction reported; Education level; Equivalence scale adjusted HH income; Equivalence scale adjusted HH income (log); Age-squared; Ever diagnosed with mental health condition; Number of health conditions ever diagnosed; Unemployed; Partnered.

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