Study Delhey & Kroll (2012): study ZZ OECD member states 2008

Public

18+ aged, general public, OECD member states, 2008

Survey name

INT-WorldValuesSurvey 5

Sample

Respondents

N = 340000

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Weighted Index of Social Progress (WISP)

Our Classification

Remarks

The WISP is an index for the changing capacity of goverments to provide for the basic social, material, and other needs of the people living within their borders, e.g. for food, clothing, shelter, and access to at least basic health, education, and social services (Estes 1998). In total 41 indicators are used to capture nine. Source: Estes, 2010: p. 367 and Table 2.

Operationalization

Index of
a. education
b. health status
c. woman' s status
d. defense effort (-)
e. economy
f. demography
g. environment
h. social chaos (-)
i. cultural diversity (-).

(-) denotes domains that are, conceptually, negatively linked to social progress. Separate factor analysis are run over the nine domains to create a subindex score for each domain. These subindices are then further factor-analyzed to arrive at the WISP.

Observed Relation with Happiness