Study Okulicz-Kozaryn (2011): study ZZ 1999

Public

18+ aged, general public, 70 nations, 1999-2008

Survey name

INT-WorldValuesSurv 1-5

Sample

Respondents

N = 21486

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

religious fractionalization

Our Classification

Remarks

fractionalization=1-sum(s_ij^2) where s_ij is the share of the group i (i=1…N)

Distribution

range: 0-.78
m: .28
sd: 23

Operationalization

Fractionalization is measured by the probability that two randomly drawn individuals from the population belong to two different religious groups: it equals one if everybody belongs to
different group and it equals zero if everybody belongs to the same group.
Fractionalisation measures the degree to which religious groups are fragmented in a
country – the higher the value of an index the more religious groups in a country

Observed Relation with Happiness