Subjective Happiness

QoG code: ess_happy

Taking all things together, how happy would you say you are?
0. Extremely Unhappy
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10. Extremely Happy

Dataset
European Social Survey - Wave 1-11
Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-11-27
Last updated by source
2024-06-20

Categories

Health

Find this variable in

Basic Cross-section - 2026 Standard Cross-section - 2026 Standard Time-series - 2026 Original dataset
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section 31
Standard cross-section 31
Standard time-series 38
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 2002-2020

Country coverage

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  • Albania
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus (1975-)
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Montenegro
  • Netherlands
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Serbia
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom

Year coverage

This variable has information from 2002 to 2020.