would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a stay-at-home parent in Canada

1 stranger working as stay-at-home parent in Canada have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 6.0 / 10, average stress 6.0 / 10. 49% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 36% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
6.0/ 10
happiness
6.0/ 10
stress
5.2h/ night
sleep
3h/ week
free time
$0/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade49%
would not trade36%
unsure15%

81 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • meaningful6
  • stressful5
  • stable4
  • lonely3
  • depressing2
  • enviable2

one stay-at-home parent in Canada has shared an anonymous fragment of their life. the sample is small — read the numbers below as suggestive, not definitive.

asked whether they would trade lives with stay-at-home parents in Canada, 81 strangers have answered. the result is split almost evenly: 49% would trade, 36% would not, 15% are unsure.

compared with stay-at-home parents worldwide, stay-at-home parents in Canada are less happy by 0.6 points on the 1–10 scale and less envied by 6 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Canada, stay-at-home parents in Canada are less happy by 0.4 points on the 1–10 scale.

how this compares

  • vs all stay-at-home parents globally
    happiness -0.6stress -0.1would-trade -6.0pp
  • vs all lives in Canada
    happiness -0.4stress -0.1would-trade -4.0pp

fragments