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Studies

Flavin et al. (2011): study ZZ Developed nations 2005

Publication

Author(s):
Flavin, P.; Pacek, A.; Radcliff, B.F.
Title:
State Intervention and Subjective Well-Being in Advanced Industrial Democracies.
Source:
Politics and Policy, 2011, Vol. 39, 251 - 269

Investigation

Public
15+ aged, general public, 15 Industrialized Democracies, 2005-2009.
Survey name
INT-WVS: combined waves
Sample
Probability multistage stratified area sample
Respondents
N = 10405
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
1   dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10  satisfied
Classification:
O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.48 7.20
SD:
1.87 2.08

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Size of the state