world_happiness: World Happiness data.

In m-clark/noiris: Data sets

Description

The World Happiness Report is a survey of the state of global happiness that ranks countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. Almost all the information here is gleaned from the report and appendices. This regards the report data from 2008-2018 included in the 2019 report.

Usage

world_happiness

Format

The main data frame world_happiness has 1704 rows and 18 variables:

country

factor with 36 levels, including the International average

year

ranges from 2008 to 2018

life_ladder

National average response to the question of life evaluations. The English wording of the question is 'Please imagine a ladder, with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?'.

log_gdp_per_capita

log GDP per capita

healthy_life_expectancy_at_birth

Based on WHO

social_support

National average of the binary responses to the Gallup World Poll (GWP) question 'If you were in trouble, do you have relatives or friends you can count on to help you whenever you need them, or not?'

freedom_to_make_life_choices

National average of responses to the GWP question "Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your freedom to choose what you do with your life?"

generosity

Residual of regressing national average of response to the GWP question "Have you donated money to a charity in the past month?" on GDP per capita.

perceptions_of_corruption

The measure is the national average of the survey responses to two questions in the GWP: "Is corruption widespread throughout the government or not" and "Is corruption widespread within businesses or not?"

positive_affect

The average of three positive affect measures in GWP: happiness, laugh and enjoyment

negative_affect

The average of three negative affect measures in GWP: worry, sadness and anger

confidence_in_national_government

indicator of the GWP national institutions index, which reflects citizens' confidence in key institutions prominent in a country's leadership: the military, the judicial system, the national government, and the honesty of elections

democratic_quality

dimension of governance from the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project. 'Roughly standardized'.

delivery_quality

dimension of governance from the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project. 'Roughly standardized'.

gini_index_wb

World Bank estimate of Gini coefficient of inequality

dystopia_residual

This is rather vaguely described. See details.

happines_score

This is rather vaguely described. See details.

Details

The happiness_score variable regards specific figures shown in the report. It seems to essentially be the ladder score but they are not identical. Furthermore, 'happiness score' and 'ladder score' are used interchangeably throughout reports. Presumably one would want to use the ladder score, as it is the main measure.

According to the report- "'Dystopia' is an imaginary country that has the world's least-happy people. The purpose in establishing Dystopia is a benchmark against which all countries can be favorably compared (no country performs more poorly than Dystopia) in terms of each of the six key variables, thus allowing each sub-bar to be of positive (or zero, in six instances) width. The lowest scores observed for the six key variables, therefore, characterize Dystopia." The actual score is considered part of unexplained variance (i.e. residual).

In tables ladder_score and positive_ and negative_affect are typically outcomes.

Note

This does not contain all the information available from the report website. Choices were made especially due to the amount of response and/or arbitrarily determined relevancy. Also, for reasons that are unclear, the happiness score is labeled 'life ladder' in the raw data.

Source

World Happiness Report 2019 Chapter 2 Appendix 1, World Happiness Report 2019 Chapter 2 Appendix 2, FAQ

Examples

library(noiris)
str(world_happiness)
world_happiness

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