Study Frey et al. (2009): study ZZ Various nation sets 1975
- Public
- 15+ aged, general public, regions, United Kingdom and Ireland, 1975-2002
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 62320
- Non Response
- n.a.
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Terroristic attacks
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Data: RAND-St. Andrews Chronology of International Terrorism and the Terror Attack Database
- Distribution
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Range = Ireland: 0-5 Great Britain: 0-37 Northern Ireland: 232-3336
Mean = Ireland: 1.08 Great Britain: 13.12 Northern Ireland: 1035.88
SD = Ireland: 1,47 Great Britain: 9,97 Northern Ireland: 709,57 - Operationalization
- Number of attacks in region
Only attacks due to international terrorism. International terrorism includes attacks by separatist groups as well attacks by domestic terrorist groups whenever foreigners are involved.
Observed Relation with Happiness
-income
-individual characteristics
-year dummies
-region dummies
B (-.000080) unaffected when additionaly controled for:
-GPD per capita growth
-Unemployment rate growth
B means that a terroristic attack decreases mean happiness by .00076 points (0,0025 %) on the happiness scale 1-4