I’d lean towards the World Happiness Report results here. IPSOS uses a fully online sample, which means you end up losing the “bottom half” of the population. World Happiness Report is phone and in-person.
Oh, thanks for the clarification! I totally missed that difference.
Given how the “bottom half” of China’s population is, to my admittedly cursory knowledge, mostly the poor rural farmers and migrant workers who have benefited a lot less from China’s recent economic growth, and are likely a big reason why China’s GDP per capita is still a fair bit lower than most western developed countries despite the shiny new city skylines, it makes sense that including that segment would make a big difference in the evaluation.
Thanks again! That actually makes me update on my earlier evaluation of the utilitarian impact of China a lot.
As I mentioned in another comment, while China ranks in the middle on the World Happiness Report, it actually ranked highest on the IPSOS Global Happiness Report from 2023, which was the last year that China was included in the survey.
I’d lean towards the World Happiness Report results here. IPSOS uses a fully online sample, which means you end up losing the “bottom half” of the population. World Happiness Report is phone and in-person.
Oh, thanks for the clarification! I totally missed that difference.
Given how the “bottom half” of China’s population is, to my admittedly cursory knowledge, mostly the poor rural farmers and migrant workers who have benefited a lot less from China’s recent economic growth, and are likely a big reason why China’s GDP per capita is still a fair bit lower than most western developed countries despite the shiny new city skylines, it makes sense that including that segment would make a big difference in the evaluation.
Thanks again! That actually makes me update on my earlier evaluation of the utilitarian impact of China a lot.