{"id":39776,"date":"2026-03-19T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/world-happiness-2017-kinship-climate-and-church-history-155-countries-34-variables\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:27:16","slug":"world-happiness-2017-kinship-climate-and-church-history-155-countries-34-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/world-happiness-2017-kinship-climate-and-church-history-155-countries-34-variables\/","title":{"rendered":"World Happiness 2017 + Kinship, Climate, And Church History (155 Countries, 34 Variables)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I merged the World Happiness Report 2017 with data most happiness analyses never touch: the Schulz et al. (2019, <em>Science<\/em>) Kinship Intensity Index (cousin marriage, polygyny, lineage, clan structure), historical Western and Eastern Church exposure, religion shares, Yale Environmental Performance Index, Women Peace &amp; Security Index, and World Bank climate data.<\/p>\n<p>One CSV, 155 countries, 34 variables, ready to use. All open-license sources except the EIU Democracy Index (available separately via Our World in Data).<\/p>\n<p>Comes with three companion notebooks: EDA with distance correlation and variable clustering, hierarchical regression, and a HARKing tutorial showing how a seductive GDP satiation pattern fails bootstrap testing.<\/p>\n<p>Dataset: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/datasets\/mycarta\/world-happiness-2017-kinship-and-climate\">https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/datasets\/mycarta\/world-happiness-2017-kinship-and-climate<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Effective-Aioli1828\"> \/u\/Effective-Aioli1828 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1rxzbcf\/world_happiness_2017_kinship_climate_and_church\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1rxzbcf\/world_happiness_2017_kinship_climate_and_church\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-39776 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='39776' data-nonce='72e055e984' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-39776 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-39776 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I merged the World Happiness Report 2017 with data most happiness analyses never touch: the Schulz et&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}