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Correlational findings

Study Verme (2008): study ZZ World samples 1981

Public
18+ aged, general public, 74 countries, 1981-2004
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurv 1-5
Sample
Respondents
N = 267870
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Importance of religion
Our Classification
Remarks
Scale of responses are assumed to be recoded such that higher values means that religion is more important to the respondent.
Operationalization
Self-report on a single question that asks whether religion is important in life. Responses are on a scale of 1 (not at all important) to 4 (very important).

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a OLRC = +.30 p < .001 INDIVIDUAL happiness by INDIVIDUAL importance of religion

In pooled data set:
OLRC controls for:
- individual characteristics
   -income (rank and squared rank)
   -employment
   -gender
   -age (and age squared)
   -tertiary education
   -maried
   -attitudes
    -about cheating on taxes
    -trust in people
    -trust in institutions
    -importance of family
    -importance of work
    -importance of religion
    -importance of politics
-national characteristics
-GDP (and GDP squared)
-employment rate (and squared)
-year fixed effects O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a b = + Separately in 74 nations.
Significantly positive in 36 nations.
Significantly negative in 3 nations.
Not significant in other nations.