Study Veenhoven & VanSchoonhoven (1991): study ZZ EU 11 1975
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, EU 11 member states, 1975-1986
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 200000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- living together (vs single)
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Possibly some of the married Ss live alone and some of the singles may in fact live together
- Operationalization
- 0 single
- never married
- separated
- widowed
1 together
- married
- unmarried co-habiting
Observed Relation with Happiness
Co-habitors tend to be happier than singles
Average correlation is similar across separate countries and varies between +.10 and +.16, with the exception of France (+.01)
Cohabitors have become happier relative to singles
Trend correlations differ across separate nations. Cohabitors became less happy relatively in Denmark, France and Ireland, but happier in Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and the UK, while no change occured in Belgiun and Northern Ireland.
The overall trend in differs slightly across sex and age categories:
Males Females
all 18 aged r = +.08 r = +.01
25-39 aged r = +.07 r = +.08