Study Welzel & Inglehart (2010): study ZZ World samples 1995
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, 89 nations, 1995-2005
- Survey name
- INT-WorldValuesSurvey 1994-2008
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 250000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Western tradition
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Source: Gerring et al. (2005) This index reflects a society's accumulated experience with liberal democracy with a premium on recent experience.
- Operationalization
- Higher values indicate greater experience with liberal democracy. This variable adds up the democracy scores a society has accumulated over time on the Polity IV autocracy-democracy index but depreciates scores from past years by 1% for each year they precede the reference year, 1995.
Observed Relation with Happiness
b controls for:
-agentic life strategies
Method used is OLS.
b controls for:
-societal characteristics
-Western tradition
-agentic life strategies
-individual characteristics
-biological age
-female sex
-income level
-education level
-interaction between societal characteristics (agentic strategy and Western tradition) with individual characteristics:
-communion emphasis (people's emphasis on family and friends as important life domains)
-monetary saturation (satisfaction with financial situation of household)
-agency feeling
-agency feeling*monetary saturation
-agency feeling*communion
-communion*monetary saturation
Method used is hierarchical linear modeling.