World Happiness 2017 + Kinship, Climate, And Church History (155 Countries, 34 Variables)

I merged the World Happiness Report 2017 with data most happiness analyses never touch: the Schulz et al. (2019, Science) Kinship Intensity Index (cousin marriage, polygyny, lineage, clan structure), historical Western and Eastern Church exposure, religion shares, Yale Environmental Performance Index, Women Peace & Security Index, and World Bank climate data.

One CSV, 155 countries, 34 variables, ready to use. All open-license sources except the EIU Democracy Index (available separately via Our World in Data).

Comes with three companion notebooks: EDA with distance correlation and variable clustering, hierarchical regression, and a HARKing tutorial showing how a seductive GDP satiation pattern fails bootstrap testing.

Dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mycarta/world-happiness-2017-kinship-and-climate