Helliwell & Huang (2006): study ZZ 1981
Publication
- Author(s):
- Helliwell, J.F.; Huang, H.
- Title:
- How's your Government? International Evidence linking Good Government and Well-Being.
- Source:
- Working Paper 11988, 2006, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, USA
Investigation
- Public
- 15+ aged, general public, 72 nations, 1981-2000
- Survey name
- INT-WorldValuesSurv 1-5
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 163000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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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
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Page in publication:
- 1
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.72 -
- SD:
- 1.10 -