World Database of Happiness
, collection Happiness in Nations
Happiness in Switzerland (CH)
Current happiness: place on rank lists
of Happiness in nations 2000-2009
All above happiness variants are based on responses to a survey question like: “Taking all together, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life-as-a-whole these days?”. Combined question types 10-step numeral life satisfaction and 11-step numeral life satisfaction.
Trend based on happiness as measured with a survey question like: "All things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
10 very satisfied
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0 not satisfied". Question type 11-step numeral LifeSatisfaction (code 122G). This measure may differ from the measure used in the above ranking of current happiness.
Other measures of happiness used in this nation may produce a different pattern over time. Check the complete overview of distributional findings on happiness in the general public of Switzerland.
Cite as: R. Veenhoven, Happiness in Switzerland (CH), World Database of Happiness, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Viewed on 2013-05-18 at http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl .