Study Veenhoven (1994c): study ZZ 1980

Public

Adults, general public, 30 nations, 1980

Sample

Respondents

N = 30

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
mostly

Correlate

Authors's Label

Freedom of press

Our Classification

Remarks

Data: (from the early 1970's) Kurian, G. T., The Book of World Rankings, London, 1979, p.362

Operationalization

The press freedom index was created by the University of Missouri School of Journalism…..two native and two nonnative judges were asked to rate each country on fixed scales for 23 items, such as legal controls, favoritism in the release of government news, and censoeship. The index consists of the averages of the scores and ranges from -4.00 for the least to +4.00 for the most.

Observed Relation with Happiness