Study Veenhoven (1984): study ZZ 1974
- Public
- 15+ aged, general public, 55 nations, 1974-1976
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 8433
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Conducted by Gallup bureaus in different countries.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Degree of internal war
- Our Classification
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- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Degree of internal war rated on the basis of the following indicators:
1. incidence of insurgent attacks;
2. actual and attempted assassinations
of political leaders;
3. the number of people being killed in anti-state or intergroup conflict
situations.
Data drawn from Hibbs (1973:tabel 5.2).
Observed Relation with Happiness
war
Australia 7.0 1.9
North America 6.7 6.3
Western Europe 6.3 3.7
Latin America 6.0 5.9
Africa (South
of the Sahara) 4.6 6.0
Asia (exc. Japan) 3.8 7.7
Japan 5.8 2.2