Band 6+: The charts below show the frequency of being happy in the last four weeks by labour status and by age group. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comaprisons where relevant.

The graphs illustrate how frequent people from different labour position and age group were happy in a four- weeks- period, in percentages.

Overall, bar charts reveals that older people (65-74) were happier compared to the slightly younger group (50-64). In terms of labor condition, those in education or training were satisfied more often than retired and self- employed with the retired showing the highest percent of unhappiness.

In relation to the data by age group, it can be seen that in both groups- (50-64) and (65-74) older people were happy more than 1/3 of the time (58.3% ), with 2.8 percentage points over the younger ones. Humans in the first age category were dissatisfied in 15.6 % of the period and those in the second with 1.4 percentage point less. The former were 29.5% happy some of the time and the latter 27.4%4.

Regarding the data on labour status people in education or training were content 3/4 of the time and were least unhappy- only 6.3 % of the time5. Retired individuals had the highest percent of unhappiness- 15.2% , with 2.8 percentage point more than the Self- employed. The latter were in the middle by data for both categories.