Study Ovaska & Takashima (2006): study ZZ 1990
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, 68 nations, 1990-2001.
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 120000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Political freedom
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Source: Freedom House 2004.
- Distribution
- M = 5,29; SD = 1,59; Range: 1,10 - 7,00.
- Operationalization
- Political Freedom in the World Index, averaged data for the 1990s.
Components:
a: political rights
b: civil liberties.
Observed Relation with Happiness
B's controlled for:
-GDP per capita
-Economic freedom
-Life expectancy
-GDP growth
-Government size
-Asia (dummy)
-Educational attainment
-Female labor participation
-Unemployment rate
-Inflation rate
-GDP per capita of neighbors
-Export
-Import
-Christianity (dummy)
-Islam (dummy)
-Population aging