Study White et al. (2013): study GB 1991

Public

18+ aged, general public, United Kingdom, followed 18 years 1991 - 2008

Survey name

UK-BHPS combined waves

Sample

Respondents

N = 56574

Non Response

Assessment

Multiple assesment methods
Greenspace: Generalised Land Use Database (GLUD)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Green space %

Our Classification

Remarks

Source: Data from the Generalised Land Use Database (GLUD, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2005). GLUD classifies land use at high geographical resolution across England and has been applied to 32,482 lower-layer super output areas (LSOAs), a standard geographic unit used to report small-area statistics. LSOA encompass similarly sized populations with each containing around 1,500 people. Mean physical area is 4km2. Area cover approximately 10m2 (2005). Focused mainly on BHPS observations (84%). GLUD devides total land cover in each LSOA into 9 categories=green space, domestic gardens, fresh water, domestic buildings, nondomestidc buildings, roads, paths, railways, and other.

Distribution

Mean: 64.8% (16.64)

Operationalization

Green space: % of lower-layer super output areas (LSOA's) accounted for by 'green space' (33%)and 'gardens' (32%).

Observed Relation with Happiness