Study Helliwell et al. (2014): study US 2004
- Public
- 18+ aged general public, urban areas, USA, 2008-2011
- Survey name
- INT-Gallup International
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 952433
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Social Capital broad engagement (SC1)
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- No effect of interaction unemployment x SC1
- Operationalization
- Index of :
a. average voting rate in 2004 and 2008 elections
b. percentage of residents who volunteered for or through religious groups
c. average number of groups volunteered for or through.
D. average hours volunteered in year (2004-2008)
e. percentage of residents who donated more than $25 to charitable or religious organizations.
Observed Relation with Happiness
- change in local employment
- individual characteristics
- age
- gender
- education
- marital status
- ethnicity
- household income (absolute)
- incomebrackets (relative)
- regional characteristics
- average household income
- country population density
- share of urban populstion
- share of owner-occupied housing
- share of minorities
- longitude and latitude of country centres
- social capital
- broad engagement
- intimate engagement
- interaction between regional unemployment and social capital