Table 1 Fit Statistics of the 1–4 class solutions for Life Satisfaction Quadratic GMM-CI

LL (No. of parameters)

−99,013.54 (17)

−98,290.23 (21)

− 97,849.11 (25)

− 97,563.94 (29)

AIC

198,061.08

196,622.45

195,748.23

195,185.89

BIC

198,185.01

196,775.53

195,930.46

195,397.28

Entropy

N/A

0.875

0.848

0.840

LMR-LRT

N/A

1408.72***

859.109**

555.39

BLRT

N/A

1446.63***

859.109***

570.34***

Group-size (%)  Class 1

10,824 (100%)

9974 (92.1%)

363 (3.3%)

447 (4.1%)

 Class 2

N/A

850 (7.9%)

560 (5.2%)

354 (3.3%)

 Class 3

N/A

N/A

9901 (91.5%)

272 (2.5%)

 Class 4

N/A

N/A

N/A

9751 (90.1%)