{"id":40082,"date":"2026-04-01T14:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/european-regions-happiness-kinship-church-exposure-353-regions-31-countries-ess-schulz-2019\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:03:44","slug":"european-regions-happiness-kinship-church-exposure-353-regions-31-countries-ess-schulz-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/european-regions-happiness-kinship-church-exposure-353-regions-31-countries-ess-schulz-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"European Regions: Happiness, Kinship &amp; Church Exposure; 353 Regions, 31 Countries (ESS + Schulz 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Novel merged dataset linking European Social Survey life satisfaction (rounds 1\u20138, 2002\u20132016) with Schulz et al. (2019, Science) regional kinship data across 353 regions in 31 European countries.<\/p>\n<p>This merge didn&#8217;t exist before: Schulz used internal region codes, not the standard NUTS codes that ESS uses. Building the crosswalk required: a) Eurostat classification tables; b) fuzzy name matching, and c) manual overrides for NUTS revision changes across countries.<\/p>\n<p>Each row\/observation is a European region. Columns\/variables include weighted mean life satisfaction (0\u201310), happiness (0\u201310), centuries of Western Church exposure, first-cousin marriage prevalence (3 countries), standardised trust, fairness, individualism, conformity, latitude, temperature, and precipitation.<\/p>\n<p>CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (same as ESS license). Companion to the country-level dataset posted yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: this is my own dataset.<\/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.kaggle.com\/datasets\/mycarta\/eu-regions-happiness-kinship-church-exposure\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1s9ieqn\/european_regions_happiness_kinship_church\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-40082 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='40082' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' 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-40082 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-40082 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novel merged dataset linking European Social Survey life satisfaction (rounds 1\u20138, 2002\u20132016) with Schulz et al. (2019,&#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-40082","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\/40082","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=40082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}