Happiness and crime

Francisco Marco-Serrano
19/06/2015

Variables related to happiness

Using data from London boroughs we can assess the variables related to happiness. Mainly, variables related to:

  • Income and wealth
  • Employment
  • Safety

Happiness and crime rate (scattergram)

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Happiness and crime rate (regression)

lm(df$Happiness.score ~ df[, 9])


Call:
lm(formula = df$Happiness.score ~ df[, 9])

Coefficients:
(Intercept)      df[, 9]  
   7.473339    -0.001866

Conclusions

There is a negative relationship between crime rates and happiness.

However, we have to consider this results have many limitations and the analysis has been very limited, only for demo purposes.