Study Benesch et al. (2007): study ZZ World samples 1995 /1

Public

15+ aged, general public, 45 nations, 1995-2003

Survey name

EU-Combined surveys: ESS+WVS

Sample

Respondents

N = 72012

Non Response

3.3%

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
Phone interview for remote areas

Correlate

Authors's Label

Number of TV channels in country

Our Classification

Remarks

Data on number of channles is at the country level, published by IP Germany in the form of the numbers of channels available to 70% of households. For ESS, data is in the year of 2002 (2003 for switzerland) For WVS, data is in the year of 1999 (2000 for Japan, South Africa, Sweden,India and Venezuela).

Distribution

M=10.58,SD=13.51

Operationalization

Observed Relation with Happiness