Aim
- Facilitation of cross-national analysis of happiness
Scope
- Nations in which the distribution of happiness is assessed by means of general population surveys
Coverage at 1-7-2020
- 155 nations
- 1945 – 2020
Variables
- Characteristics of nations
– Economy
– National character
– Demography
– etc…… - Happiness in nations
– Distribution of happiness
– Average level of happiness, measured by means
– Inequality in happiness, measured by standard deviations
– Distribution of happiness derivates
– Happy life-years (0-1 happiness x life-expectancy)
– Equality adjusted happiness (index of mean and standard deviation)
– Change average happiness over periodes of 10, 20, 30 and 40 years
– Correlates of happiness (concomittants)
– r happiness – age
– r happiness – income
– etc…….
The list of variables can be browsed on this site
Data file
- The data are stored in an SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) or Excel. This file is free available on request. See user-information.
Available on old website
- To date (July 2020) this source is not yet available on this new website. So go to http://worlddatabaseofhappiness-archive.eur.nl/statnat/statnat_fp.htm and don’t be surprised to see another format.
Cite as:
Veenhoven, R. (201?)
States of Nations: Data file for the cross-national analysis of happiness
World Database of Happiness, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Assessed on (date) at: http://worlddatabaseofhappiness-archive.eur.nl/statnat/statnat_fp.htm