Study Veenhoven (1984): study ZZ EU 9 1975
- Public
- 15+ aged, general public, EU 9 member states, Western Europe, 1975
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 12996
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Freedom of press
- Our Classification
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- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Press freedom rated on the basis of 'the press freedom index' (Missouri School of Journalism) consisting of 23 items rated on a scale from -4 to 4.
Examples of items are:
1. legal controls;
2. favoritism in the release of government news;
3. censorship.
Data drawn from Kurian (1979:362).
Observed Relation with Happiness
of press
Great Britain 1.95 2.37
France 1.89 1.92
W-Germany 1.89 2.43
Italy 1.61 1.98
Belgium 2.27 2.53
The Netherlands 2.22 3.02
Luxembourg 2.03 no data
Denmark 2.54 2.65 Ireland 1.88 2.37