Assessing Happiness and Competitiveness of World Major Metropolises, 2006 (ICPSR 27901)

Published: Aug 4, 2011

Principal Investigator(s):
Nam Young Lee, Korean Social Science Data Center

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27901.v1

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Project Description

Summary

This study aimed to empirically examine happiness and community/city conditions assessed by residents living in ten major cities of the world: Beijing, Berlin, London, Milan, New York City, Paris, Seoul, Stockholm, Tokyo, and Toronto. Respondents were asked questions about themselves and their city of residence. Questions focused on a range of topics including the economy, culture and education, welfare, safety, environment, living conditions, city administration, community life, health, and happiness. Demographic questions included city of residence, gender, age, education level, income level, occupation, marital status, and religion.

Citation

Lee, Nam Young. Assessing Happiness and Competitiveness of World Major Metropolises, 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-08-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27901.v1

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Funding

Seoul Metropolitan Government

Seoul Welfare Foundation

Subject Terms

community participation cost of living cultural attitudes education environmental attitudes government performance happiness health care identity job opportunities living conditions local government neighborhood condition welfare services

Geographic Coverage

United States Japan Berlin China (Peoples Republic) England Global Stockholm New York City Beijing Canada South Korea Sweden Great Britain Milan Tokyo Seoul London Italy France Germany Paris Toronto

Smallest Geographic Unit

city

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

2006-05 -- 2006-11

Date of Collection

2006-05 -- 2006-11

Data Collection Notes

In order to conform to SPSS variable naming conventions, original variable names containing periods have been renamed; periods in these variable names have been substituted with underscores "_".

Methodology

Sample

Representative random sampling. Gender/age distribution of the completed samples should be largely in line with overall population of the surveyed city.

Universe

Persons aged 18 and over living in Seoul, London, Paris, Berlin, Milan, New York City, Toronto, Tokyo, Beijing, and Stockholm.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Type(s)

survey data

Mode of Data Collection

computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)

Version(s)

Original Release Date

2011-08-04

Version Date

2011-08-04

Version History

2011-08-04 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.