Study Veenhoven (2005d): study ZZ EU 14 1970
- Public
- 15+ aged, general public, EU 14 member states, 1973-2001
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 374000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Trend in dispersion of life-satisfaction
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Inequality in happiness measured using the standard deviation
- Distribution
- Average standard deviation about 0,7
- Operationalization
- Selfreport on single question:
On the whole how satisfied are you with the life you lead?
4 very satisfied
3 fairly satisfied
2 not very satisfied
1 not at all satisfied
- Don't know
Observed Relation with Happiness
This means a yearly drop in inequality of 0,18%. If this trend continues lineriarly, it will take about 50 years to reduce the standard-deviation from about 0,7 to 0,6 and another 300 years would be required to reduce it to zero