ESS-09 / The good life
What prosperity buys
Which countries convert prosperity into wellbeing most efficiently?
PlannedWave 2Research question, not a published result
The question
Compare reported wellbeing with the level associated with each country's economic and social conditions.
What the analysis will test
- Primary quantity
- Observed minus model-expected wellbeing conditional on official economic context.
- Evidence
- ESS rounds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Modules: core, context.
- Primary comparison
- Expected-versus-observed wellbeing. The final form depends on validated data and uncertainty.
- Publication threshold
- Pinned source editions, reviewed questionnaire comparability, survey-design-aware intervals, disclosure checks and reproducible aggregate outputs.
What this evidence does not prove
A model residual is not a causal efficiency score; omitted institutions, reporting cultures and model choices matter.
The ESS interviews different probability samples in each round. It measures structural differences and change, not today's mood or the same individuals over time.
Sources and next release
This page reserves the permanent address for ESS-09. Estimates and downloads will appear here after the data, statistical, editorial and reproducibility checks pass.