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Correlational findings

Study Bellet et al. (2019): study GB 2017

Public
Sales workers, UK, followed 6 month 2017
Survey name
Unnamed study
Sample
Respondents
N = 12549
Non Response
63%
Assessment
Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label
Bad weather index
Our Classification
Remarks
Bellet et al. (2019)
Distribution
Mean = 4.06; SD = 1.78
Operationalization
Number of daily incidences of fog, rain and snow during the week for which individuals reported their happiness. If it were to rain, snow and be foggy every day of the week, the index would be 15, if it rains for 2 days and is foggy for 1 day, the index would be 3, and so on.

In reality ranges from 0 to 10.

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks M-FH-cw-sqr-f-5-a b-fix = -.03 p < .01 b (-.025) controled for:
- Week fixed effects
- individual fixed effects
- work schedule
- day of survey