Five Years in the Life Five Years in the Life Five Years in the Life is a Canadian reality television series which aired on CBC Television from 1968 to 1972. The lives of selected Canadian families were profiled in this series with the initial intent to revisit them five years later. However, public interest in the series caused the CBC to revisit featured families more frequently and to profile additional families. Profiled people included an architect, an Inuit artist, a Jamaican immigrant and a lighthouse operator from Newfoundland. The various segments were produced with numerous directors. This half-hour series was broadcast for five seasons as
Happy life expectancy run. HLE uses eight 'nation characteristics' when calculating the 'happy life-expectancy.' These criteria (which are further individuated into more subjective determinants within the larger category) are: affluence, security, freedom, social equality, cultural climate, social climate, modernization, population pressure. In determining HLE scores, Veenhoven multiplied standard-life expectancy by a happiness index correlated from the eight characteristics listed above. Iceland had the highest HLE observed by Veenhoven's method, while Bulgaria had the lowest. The HLE was not found to be related to unemployment, state welfare, or income equality, nor to religiousness and trust in institutions. There are startling differences between the QOL-indexes