DeJonge Tineke, Veenhoven Ruut, Kalmijn Wim, Arends Lidia
Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Soc Indic Res. 2016;126(2):863-891. doi: 10.1007/s11205-015-0898-5. Epub 2015 Feb 21.
Survey research on subjective wellbeing in The Netherlands started in the early 1970s. The time series happiness and life satisfaction that have emerged since then are unfortunately based on slightly different survey items of which one part uses verbal response scales and another part uses numerical response scales. The diversity of the survey items and a number of other measurement issues, such as the effects of changes in survey mode, hamper comparison over time and make it difficult to establish whether life became any better over the last forty years. These problems can be tackled using the recently developed Reference Distribution Method with which responses to equivalent but not identical survey questions can be pooled to obtain long, consistent time series. We applied the Reference Distribution method to pool time series of happiness and life satisfaction. We conclude that in the past 40 years the Dutch have become slightly happier and satisfied with their lives.
荷兰关于主观幸福感的调查研究始于20世纪70年代初。自那时起出现的幸福和生活满意度时间序列，遗憾的是基于略有不同的调查项目，其中一部分使用文字回答量表，另一部分使用数字回答量表。调查项目的多样性以及一些其他测量问题，如调查方式变化的影响，妨碍了随时间的比较，也难以确定在过去四十年里生活是否变得更好。这些问题可以通过最近开发的参考分布方法来解决，利用该方法可以汇总对等效但不完全相同的调查问题的回答，以获得长期、一致的时间序列。我们应用参考分布方法汇总幸福和生活满意度的时间序列。我们得出结论，在过去40年里，荷兰人变得稍微更幸福，对自己的生活也更满意了。
