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Social Development and Happiness in nations 1990-2010

Social Development and Happiness in nations 1990-2010. Ruut Veenhoven Erasmus University Rotterdam Presentation at Conference Taking Stock: Measuring Social Development International Institute of Social Studies December 14-15 2011, The Hague, Netherlands. Social development and Happiness.

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Social Development and Happiness in nations 1990-2010

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  1. Social Development and Happiness in nations 1990-2010 Ruut VeenhovenErasmus University Rotterdam Presentation at Conference Taking Stock: Measuring Social Development International Institute of Social Studies December 14-15 2011, The Hague, Netherlands

  2. Social development and Happiness • The issue • Social development • Happiness • Does social development foster happiness? • Independent of economic development? • More so than economic development?

  3. The issue • Disenchantment with primacy of economic development • Call for more emphasis onsocial development • Expectation that social developmentmatters more for happiness

  4. Questions • Social development linked to happiness? • level • change • Independent of economicdevelopment? • More so than economic development?

  5. Social development

  6. Social development • Not societaldevelopmentin macro-sociological sense • Degree to which social life in contemporary societies fits ideals of: • involvement • connectedness • equality Also called ‘social capital’

  7. Happiness

  8. Happiness • Concept • Measurement • Differences across nations • Trends over time

  9. What is ‘happiness’?Four qualities of life

  10. What is ‘happiness’?Four qualities of life

  11. What is ‘happiness’?Four kinds of satisfaction

  12. What is ‘happiness’?Four kinds of satisfaction

  13. Measurement of happinessExample of a survey question Taking all together, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life as a whole these days? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Dissatisfied Satisfied

  14. HappinessDifference across nations

  15. Happiness in Denmark

  16. Happiness in Zimbabwe

  17. Happiness in nations2000-2009 • Denmark 8,3 • Netherlands 7,6 • USA 7,4 • France 6,6 • Russia 5,5 • Iraq 4,7 • Zimbabwe 3,0

  18. Trend happiness 1973-2010

  19. Gains happiness 1973-2010, scale 0-10 • Italy + 0,63 • Denmark + 0,55 • USA + 0,29 • France + 0,55 • UK + 0,26 • Netherlands + 0,26 • Japan + 0,20

  20. Social development  happiness?

  21. Social development  happiness? • Comparison across nations • Comparison over time, within nations Data set: States of nations. Part of World Database of Happiness

  22. Social development  happiness?Across nations: Civic activism

  23. Social development  happiness?Across nations:Intergroup cohesion

  24. Social development  happiness?Across nations:Clubs and Associations

  25. Social development  happiness?Across nations: InterpersonalS+T

  26. Social development  happiness?Across nations: Gender equality

  27. Social development  happiness?Comparison across nations 2010

  28. Social development  happiness?Comparison over time 1990-2010

  29. Social development  happiness?Over time: Civic activism

  30. Social development  happiness?Across nations:Clubs and Associations

  31. Social development  happiness?Over time: InterpersonalS+T

  32. Social development  happiness?Over time: Gender equality

  33. Social development  happiness?Comparison over time 1990-2010

  34. Independent of economic development?

  35. Social development  happiness?Independent of economic development?

  36. More so than economic development?

  37. More so than economic development? • Comparison across nations 2010 • Comparison over time 1990-2010

  38. More so than economic development?Across nations: Buying power p/c

  39. More so than economic development?Comparison across nations

  40. More so than economic development?Over time: Buying power p/c

  41. More so than economic development?Comparison over time

  42. Social development  happiness?Conclusions • No clear relation with- Intergroup cohesion- Clubs- associations- Safety –Trust • Consistent relation with:- Civic Activism- Gender Equality • Partly independent of economic development • No stronger than economic development

  43. World Database of Happiness http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl

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