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 politics
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Scale of responses are assumed to be recoded such that higher values means that politics is more important to the respondent.
- Operationalization
- Self-report on a single question that asks whether politics is important in life. Responses are on a scale of 1 (not at all important) to 4 (very important).
Observed Relation with Happiness
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
Significantly negative in 6 nations.
Significantly positive in 4 nations.
Not significant in other nations.