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Correlational findings

Study Drobnic et al. (2010): study ZZ EU 9 2003

Public
Working people, 9 European Union countries, 2003
Sample
Respondents
N = 3354
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Commuting time
Our Classification
Distribution
Range 0-6
Sweden: M= .57, Finland: M= .62, Netherlands: M= .73, Germany: M= .61, United Kingdom: M= .62, Portugal: M= .59, Spain: M= .61, Hungary: M= .67, Bulgaria: M= .57
Operationalization
Hours of commuting time of subjects using their usual mode of transport

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-b b = -.10 p < .05 B controlled for:
- gender
- age in linear and in quadratic form
- marital status
- number of children
- education level
- objective working conditions
- subjective evaluations of work
- GDP per capita
- country dummies
- job satisfaction
- work-home interference

In analysis of each country separately B is only significant in Sweden (-.28)