happiness and life satisfaction as indicators of subjective well-being: comparative perspective...
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HAPPINESS AND LIFE SATISFACTION AS INDICATORS OF SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING:
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Progress reportSvetlana Kroitor
August, 2011Pushkin
Laboratory for comparative social research
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The main results of the 1st research phase
Happiness,Rank / Mean –
weighted
Satisfaction,Rank / Mean –
weighted
Correlation happiness-satisfaction
Size of variation in happiness-satisfaction
correlation during 1981–2007
New West 1 / 3,35 2 / 7,67 0,520 0,02
Protestant West 2 / 3,27 1 / 7,93 0,508 0,06
Returned West 9 / 2,83 7 / 6,17 0,494 0,08
Catholic West 7 / 2,99 4 / 6,80 0,493 0,06
Orthodox East 10 / 2,64 9 / 5,16 0,470 0,14
Cinic East 6 / 3,05 5 / 6,61 0,428 0,21
Islamic East 8 / 2,96 8 / 5,95 0,427 0,18Sub-Saharan Africa 4 / 3,14 7 / 6,17 0,392 0,26
Indic East 5 / 3,09 6 / 6,43 0,383 0,07
Latin America 3 / 3,18 3 / 7,55 0,362 0,09
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HYPOTHESIS: CORRELATION BETWEEN HAPPINESS AND LIFE SATISFACTION INCREASES WITH
OBJECTIVE IMPOVEMENT OF PEOPLE’S LIFE QUALITY IN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL SPHERE
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MAIN TASK:
TO STUDY HOW COUNTRY-LEVEL CHARACTERISTICS INCLUDING THE LEVEL OF
ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS’ DEVELOPMENT AFFECT
HAPPINESS-SATISFACTION AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
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DATA SOURCES
WVS datasets (1981–2007); statistics of UNDP, World Bank,
Freedom House
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VARIABLESIndependent variables
ECONOMIC
WELFAREGDP
per capitaGini Inde
x
Income
share held
by highest/lowest 10% of country’s
population
POLITICAL
SITUATIONGood
Governance IndexIndex of Freedom
SOCIAL
SITUATION
HDI
Dependent variable
SUBLECTIVE WELL-BEING
Happiness- satisfaction correlation
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The scatter plot illustrating the relative position of every country according to its happiness-satisfaction correlation and GDP per capita
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The scatter diagram illustrating the relative position of every country according to its happiness-satisfaction correlation and Gini Index
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The scatter diagram illustrating the relative position of every country according to its happiness-satisfaction correlation and Good Governance Index
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The scatter diagram illustrating the relative position of every country according to its happiness-satisfaction correlation and Human Development Index
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CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF STATES BY ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL
FACTORS AND HAPPINESS-SATISFACTION CORRELATION WITH THE PRELIMINARY
FACTOR ANALYSIS
Next step:
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Factor analysis: Component Matrix*Component
1GDP per capita_1985-2005_mean ,845
Gini_1985-2005_mean -,597
HDI_1985-2005_mean ,874
Good Governance Index_mean_1996-2005
,858
Happiness-satisfaction correlation ,727
GDP per capita_1985-2005_mean ,845
* Extraction Metod: Principal Component Analysis.
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CLUSTER ANALYSIS
Independent variable
FAC_1 (Factor scores for all observations
saved as a variable)
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Cluster profilesNumber and label of
cluster Happiness-satisfaction correlation
GDP per capita_1985-2005_mean
Gini_1985-2005_mean
HDI_1985-2005_mean
Good Governance
Index_mean_1996-2005
happiness_
meansatisfaction_mean
CLUSTER 2: HIGHLY DEVELOPED
Mean ,533 25242,4 31,5 ,85 94,1 3,27 7,53
Std. Deviation
,033 5822,6 5,0 ,02 5,5 ,12 ,44
CLUSTER 3: DEVELOPED
Mean ,474 8487,1 31,9 ,77 73,4 2,84 6,16
Std. Deviation
,056 6541,0 6,2 ,04 11,3 ,22 ,84
CLUSTER 1: TRANSITION
Mean ,378 1778,9 41,7 ,58 39,9 3,02 6,28
Std. Deviation
,107 1464,5 8,2 ,12 18,2 ,26 1,01
CLUSTER 4: UNDERDEVELOPED
Mean ,140 383,7 45,7 ,31 23,6 2,98 4,71
Std. Deviation
,219 170,4 6,4 ,06 15,1 ,37 1,03
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CLUSTER 2: HIGHLY DEVELOPED
Happiness-satisfaction correlation
GDP per capita_1985-2005_mean
Gini_1985-2005_mean
HDI_1985-2005_mean
Good Governance Index_mean_
1996-2005FRANCE ,603 22588,7 32,7 ,82 88,3GR. BRITAIN ,577 21367,3 36,0 ,82 92,3NETHERLANDS ,559 23465,1 30,9 ,86 98,2SWEDEN ,557 27564,8 25,0 ,86 97,7GERMANY ,552 23835,9 28,3 ,83 94,1JAPAN ,522 30247,4 24,9 ,85 79,6AUSTRALIA ,515 19888,2 35,2 ,89 94,6FINLAND ,513 24012,5 26,9 ,83 99,1UNITED STATES
,513 28672,2 40,8 ,88 90,5
CANADA ,506 21500,5 32,6 ,86 96,2NEW ZEALAND ,505 15118,2 36,2 ,86 98,7NORWAY ,503 33834,8 25,8 ,89 97,6SWITZERLAND ,503 36055,3 33,7 ,85 96,1MEAN for the cluster
,533 25242,4 31,5 ,85 94,1
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CLUSTER 3: DEVELOPED
Happiness-satisfaction correlation
GDP per capita_1985-2005_mean
Gini_1985-2005_mean
HDI_1985-2005_mean
Good Gov. Index_mean_
1996-2005ITALY ,469 19757,5 36,0 ,81 79,9SPAIN ,379 14374,8 34,7 ,81 87,7
HONG KONG ,387 19493,5 43,4 ,80 61,5SINGAPORE ,389 18030,6 42,5 ,83 49,7ISRAEL ,582 14558,3 39,2 ,83 66,3
BULGARIA ,510 1987,0 28,5 ,70 63,7CROATIA ,490 5357,5 28,1 ,73 64,5CZECH REP. ,481 5975,3 24,8 ,81 78,3ESTONIA ,496 4303,8 34,7 ,77 82,9HUNGARY ,505 4676,5 26,4 ,76 87,7LATVIA ,483 3138,4 31,1 ,71 72,5LITHUANIA ,541 3491,6 31,4 ,74 76,7POLAND ,438 3595,7 30,8 ,75 81,4ROMANIA ,509 1904,6 28,8 ,70 59,6SLOVAKIA ,442 4562,2 21,6 ,77 76,9SLOVENIA ,480 10585,7 28,3 ,79 84,8
MEAN 0,474 8487,1 31,9 0,77 73,4
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CLUSTER 4: UNDER DEVELOPED
Happiness-satisfaction correlation
GDP per capita_1985-2005_mean
Gini_1985-2005_mean
HDI_1985-2005_mean
Good Gov. Index_mean_
1996-2005RWANDA ,279 271,0 37,8 ,28 11,6
TANZANIA ,074 254,2 43,2 ,35 37,1
ZAMBIA -,140 385,8 50,1 ,37 36,3
ZIMBABWE ,346 623,8 51,5 ,23 9,5
MEAN for the cluster
0,140 383,7 45,7 0,31 23,6
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ARMENIAAZERBAIJAN
BELARUSGEORGIA
KYRGYZSTANMOLDOVA
RUSSIAN FEDERATIONUKRAINE
COLOMBIABRAZILCHILE
EL SALVADORGUATEMALA
MEXICOPERU
URUGUAYVENEZUELA
ALGERIABURKINA FASOBANGLADESH
EGYPTGHANA
DOMINICAN REPUBLICMOROCCO
NIGERIASOUTH AFRICA
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGOUGANDA
ALBANIABOSNIA AND
HERZEGOVINAMACEDONIA
CHINAVIET NAMTHAILANDMALAYSIA
INDIAINDONESIAPHILIPPINES
IRANJORDAN
MALIPAKISTANTURKEY
ARGENTINA
CLUSTER 1: TRANSITION
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