Study Muffels et al. (2012): study ZZ Europe 2008
- Public
- 18+ aged general public, 47 countries, 2008
- Survey name
- EU-EVS
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 67216
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Opinion altruism (0-1)
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- the observed mean is the value on a 10 point scale
- Distribution
- 4.57
- Operationalization
- To what extent the respondent believe people try to be helpful or that they are mostly looking out for themselves?
0- least altruistic
1- most altruistic
Observed Relation with Happiness
OPRC controlled for :
- Personal characteristics
- age, age squared, age cubed
- gender
- marital status
- employmnet status
- bad health
- nation characteristics
- GDP growth
- unemployment rate
- value climate in nation
- importance family and children
- trust in peole/institutions
- importance friends
- post-materialistim
- Pure Post-materialist
- Mixed materialist/Post-materialist
- leisure values
- work orientation: intrinsic, extrinsic
- work values (work ethos, work first)
- religious values
- traditional gender values