Study Cantril (1965): study ZZ 1960
- Public
- 20+ aged general public, 14 countries, ±1960
- Survey name
- INT-Cantril World Survey
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 18653
- Non Response
- -
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
by native interviewer
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Socio-economic development
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- 5-item index involving:
- general welfare: GNP per capita,
and number of doctors per 10,000
persons
- communications: number of vehicles,
telephones, radios, and newspaper
circulation, per 1000 persons
- industrialization: energy consump-
tion per capita, and percentage of
the economically active population
in the non-agricultural sectors
- urbanization: percentage of the po-
pulation literate, and primary
school enrollment ratio.
Observed Relation with Happiness
L-shaped curve: stronger effect on average hap- piness in the least develloped countries.