"He's an outsider but has lots of good friends," says Huber. "He's happy compared to most 87-year-olds.
This was more true of women than men, with 70 per cent of women saying they were happy compared to 58 per cent of men.
He is not surprised then by the findings of Guardian research published last month, which showed that social workers in Wales enjoy their jobs more than their peers across the UK – 87% said they were happy, compared with 79% across the UK as a whole and as few as 69% in south-west England.
This year's World Bank report (pdf) found that only 37% of rural households said they were happy, compared with half of households in cities. "Low living standards, lack of alternative job opportunities, especially for young people, and unhappiness is contributing to increased out-migration as well as families' breakdown and loss of communities' vitality," said the report.
Then we come up with a value of how often they were happy compared to how often they were not happy.
Results indicate that while children of migrant parents, especially migrant mothers, are less likely to be happy compared to children in nonmigrant households, greater resilience in child well-being is associated to longer durations of maternal absence.
(Well, to be rigorous about it, 36% of gun owners were "very happy" compared to 30% of people without guns being "very happy," so nobody is exactly running through the streets in any case, but this is a small point to make in a substance that suffers from lack of analysis. For example, Brooks asks rhetorically, "Why are gun owners so happy?
Thomas, unlike Team Sky, is happy to be compared to a penguin.
What they found was that people in the clinical trials being treated with those inhibitors against tuberculosis were really happy compared to controls.
