Variable	Measurement	Era	Code	N	Source
Dispersion of overall happiness	SD 3-step happiness1	1948	SD_HappinessHL3_1948	8	WDH table 111a
		1948	SD_HappinessHL3a_19482	8	WDH table 111a
		1980	SD_HappinessHL3_1980	31	WDH table 111a+b+c
	SD 3-step happiness corrected	1980	SD_HappinessHL3a_19802	21	WDH table 111a
		1980	SD_HappinessHL3b_19803	21	Veenhoven 1990
	SD 4-step happiness	1990	SD_HappinessHL4_1990	42	WDH table 111b
		1995-98	SD_HappinessHL4_1996	51	WDH table 111b
		1999	SD_HappinessHL4_1999	31	WDH table 111b
		1990-99	SD_HappinessHL4_1990s	69	Mean eqhap4_90-96-99
Dispersion of lifesatisfaction	SD 4-step lifesatisfaction	1973-79	SD_HappinessLS4_1970s	10	WDH table 121b
		1980-89	SD_HappinessLS4_1980s	13	WDH table 121b
		1990-99	SD_HappinessLS4_1990s	37	WDH table 121b
		2000	SD_HappinessLS4_2000	34	WDH table 121b
	SD 10-step lifesatisfaction	1980	SD_HappinessLS10_1980	25	WDH table 122c
		1990-91	SD_HappinessLS10_1990	42	WDH table 122c
		1990-95	SD_HappinessLS10_1995	62	WDH  table 122c
		1995-98	SD_HappinessLS10_1998	47	WDH table 122c
		1999-2000	SD_HappinessLS10_1999	83	WDH table 122c
		1990-2000	SD_Happiness10_1990s	83	Mean 1990-95-99
		2005	SD_HappinessLS10_2005	52	Computed from World Values Survey 5
	SD 10+11 step lifesatisfaction	1995-2005	SD_HappinessLS10.11_2000s	83	WDH table 122c+d+e
		2000-2008	SD_HappinessLS10.11_2000.08	131
		2000-2009	SD_HappinessLS10.11_2000.09	134
	Gini coefficient of 10-step lifesatisfaction	1999	Gini_HappinessLS10_1999	46	Computed from World Values Survey 4, item 65
	% in modus 10-step life satisfaction	1999	Modus1_HappinessLS10_1999	46
	% in modus and adjacent categories 10-step Life Satisfaction	1999	Modus2_HappinessLS10_1999	46
	Inter quartile range 10-step Life Satisfaction	1999	IQR_HappinessLS10_1999	46
	Various questions on life-satisfaction: scored on verbal and numerical scales, all transformed to range 0-10	1990-2000	SD_HappinessLSmix_1990s	90	WDH table 122c+123
Dispersion on Best-Worst scale	SD 11 step Best-Worst possible ladder of life scale	2006	SD_HappinessBW11_2006	132	WDH table 131C
Dispersion of affect balance	SD 10 item Affect Balance Scale	1980	SD_HappinessABS_1980s	16	WDH table 222
		1990-91	SD_HappinessABS_1990s	38
	SD 16 item scale of yesterday’s affects	2006	SD_HappinessABS.YA_2006	43	WDH table 231
Dispersion in combined non-equivalent items using regression to estimate the score on one item on the bases of responses to another	Standard deviation 0-10 lifesatisfaction completed with standard deviation 0-10 Best-Worst transformed
		1995-2005	SD_HappinessLSBW11_2000s4	94	WDH table 122c+d and 131
		2000-2009	SD_HappinessLSBW10.11_2000.09	142
		2005-2014	SD_HappinessLSBW10.11_2005-2014	143
	Standard deviation 0-10 BestWorst completed with standard deviation 0-10 Life satisfaction	2006	SD_HappinessBWLS11_2006	132
Inequality-adjusted happiness	Index which gives equal weight to level and dispersion of happiness. Computed rom mean and standard deviation of happiness according to Kalmijn and Veenhoven 2005	1990-2000	IAH_1990s	90	LSBW_90s, SD_LSBW_90s
		1995-2005	IAH_2000s	94	LSBW_00s, SD_LSBW_00s
		2000-2008	IAH_2000.08	131	LSBW10.11_2000.08 SD_LSBW10.11_2000.08

Related topics: Average happiness, Inequality Adjusted Happiness (IAH)
Related themes: Inequality, Subjective well-being

The dataset States of Nations is about characteristics of countries in periods (macro variables). It is part of the World Database of Happiness. Though developed for the identification of societal conditions for happiness, this source can also be used for other purposes.