Long Term Trends in Life Satisfaction, 1973–2012: Flanders in Europe

Marc Callens ()
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Marc Callens: Research Centre of the Flemish Government

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2017, vol. 130, issue 1, No 7, 107-127

Abstract: Abstract In this paper we focus on temporal heterogeneity of overall life satisfaction. Using repeated Eurobarometer Surveys from the period 1973–2012 and multilevel hierarchical age period cohort regression, trend, life-cycle and cohort effects are disentangled. In Flanders, the trend fluctuations are stronger than the life-cycle effects and there are hardly any generation effects. In other countries, by contrast, there are few or no trend fluctuations, but rather signs of a generational change. The international heterogeneity is particularly large and these international differences are stronger than the temporal ones. It remains unclear what factors from the macro-context lie at the basis of the observed international differences.

Keywords: Overall life satisfaction; Eurobarometer 1973–2012; Multilevel hierarchical age period cohort regression; Long term trend; Flanders; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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