Published by ljridley on April 5, 2016 in World Values.
The Pew Research Center released a new study on gender and religion, finding that women are generally more religious than men.
Published by ljridley on February 9, 2016 in Demographic Trends, New Resources and World Values.
Open Data, the World Bank blog, pulled four charts from the portal to illustrate gaps which still need to be closed.
Published by ljridley on May 6, 2015 in World Values.
Drew DeSilver of Pew Research Center analyzed voter data for OECD countries and found that the U.S. voter turnout ranks near the bottom among the voting-age population (53.5% in 2012), but much higher among registered voters (84.3%).
Published by ljridley on March 24, 2015 in World Values.
The Pew Research Center examines the worldwide use and influence of the internet in it’s 2014 Global Attitudes Survey.
As more people around the world gain access to all the tools of the digital age, the internet will play a greater role in everyday life. And so far, people in emerging and developing nations say that the increasing use of the internet has been a good influence in the realms of education, personal relationships and the economy. But despite all the benefits of these new technologies, on balance people are more likely to say that the internet is a negative rather than a positive influence on morality, and they are divided about its effect on politics.
Download the full report (PDF) and the Topline Questionnaire (PDF).
Published by ljridley on March 17, 2015 in Economic Behavior, Education and World Values.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the No Ceilings initiative of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation published an interactive website marking the 20th anniversary of the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
The full report and data are also available.
Published by ljridley on May 16, 2014 in World Values.
Pretty much everyone seems happy. In Australia, 93 percent of the population is either happy or very happy. In China, it’s 85 percent. Jordan: 86 percent. They’re chipper in Colombia at 92. Belarus is below average, at 64, but it still has a solid majority of happy campers. In the United States, 90 percent of us are happy and presumably steering clear of the sour-faced 10-percenters.
Those figures come from the latest round, released in April, of the World Values Survey, which has been tracking the beliefs and feelings of humanity since 1981. How do surveyors determine whether people are happy? They ask them. This is what social scientists usually do when they want to find out such things.
The theory is that you are the best source of information about your own happiness. But is that the case?
Read the full article and watch the video for Pharrell Williams’ “Happy”.