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 Democratic quality of government Delivery Quality of Government Technical quality of government Healthy Life Expectancy Disability adjusted life expectancy in nation GDP per Capita Purchasing power (`real' GDP pc) Satisfaction with freedom to make life choices Satisfaction with freedom Perception of social support, as having someone to count on Perceived availability of social support Negative affect Feeling down (vs not)
Hedonic tone in affect Positive affect Feeling cheerful (vs gloomy)
Hedonic tone in affect Summed Effects Summed effects of environmental + individual characteristics (macro + micro)X