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Studies

Ott (2020): study ZZ 2005

Publication

Author(s):
Ott, J.C.
Title:
Beyond Economics. Happiness as a Standard in our Personal Life and in Politics
Source:
Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, 2020

Investigation

Public
15+ aged, general public, 156 nations, 2005-2019
Survey name
INT-Gallup World Poll combined waves
Sample
Probability area sample
Respondents
N = 1849000
Non Response
Assessment
Face-to-face + Telephone

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question

Using a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 means 'the worst possible life' and 10 means the 'best possible life', how would you rate your life overall these days?
0  worst possible life overall
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10  best possible life overall
Classification:
C-BW-c-sq-n-11-c
Author's label:
Evaluative Happiness
Page in publication:
89
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
5.50 -
SD:
- -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Democratic Quality of Government