| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Veenhoven, R. |
| Title | Is Happiness a Trait? Test of the Theory that a Better Society does not Make People any Happier. |
| Source | Social Indicators Research, 1994, Vol. 32, 101 - 160 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1765/16155 |
| DOI | DOI:10.1007/BF01078732 |
| Investigation | |
| Public | Adults, general public, 30 nations, 1980 |
| India, Greece, White Russia, Portugal, Korea (South), Mexico, Italy, Philippines, Hungary, Spain, Japan, Germany (West), Switzerland, South Africa, Luxemburg, Singapore, Brazil, France, Finland, Norway, USA, Belgium, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, North Ireland, Britain, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Iceland. | |
| around 1980 | |
| Survey name | Not available |
| Data on happiness drawn from this World Database of Happiness | |
| Sample | Selection from general population sample |
| Non probality sample of nations, Probability samples within nations | |
| Respondents N = | 30 |
| 30 nations, about 30.000 respondents | |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| mostly | |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Self report on single question Various items using the term happiness Responses transformed to common 0 to 10 scale Scores on verbal response scales transformed using Thurstone's technique of expert weighing Scores on numerical scales shorter than 11 step transformed by linear stretching |
| Classification | O-HL---sq-nt-11-b |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 0 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 7.04 | |
| Standard deviation | 0.70 |
| Author's label | Subject Code Finding | Subject description |
| Education | N04ab11cb | Public education in nation |
| Freedom of press | N14ab01ba | Freedom of press in nation |
| Media attendence | N02ab03b | Media attendance in narion |
| Political democracy | N12ab04 | Political democracy in nation |
| Real income per capita | N04ab01b | Purchasing power (`real' gnp pc) |
| Social security | N04ab11ce | Social security in nation |
| Women's emancipation | N14ab02c | Gender inequality (women emancipation) in nation |