This dataset was created in order to document self-reported life evaluations among small-scale societies that exist on the fringes of mainstream industrialized socieities. The data were produced as part of the LICCI project, through fieldwork carried out by LICCI partners. The data include individual responses to a life satisfaction question, and household asset values. Data from Gallup World Poll and the World Values Survey are also included, as used for comparison.

TABULAR DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION

1. File name: LICCI_individual.csv

Number of rows and columns: 2814,7

Variable list: Variable names: User, Site, village

    Description: identification of investigator and location

Variable name: Well.being.general

    Description: numerical score for life satisfaction question

Variable names: HH_Assets_US, HH_Assets_USD_capita 
    Description: estimated value of representative assets in the household of respondent, total and per capita (accounting for number of household inhabitants)

1. File name: LICCI_bySite.csv

Number of rows and columns: 19,8

Variable list:

Variable names: Site, N 
    Description: site name and number of respondents at the site

Variable names: SWB_mean, SWB_SD 
    Description: mean and standard deviation of life satisfaction score

Variable names: HHAssets_USD_mean, HHAssets_USD_sd 
    Description: Site mean and standard deviation of household asset value

Variable names: PerCapAssets_USD_mean, PerCapAssets_USD_sd 
    Description: Site mean and standard deviation of per capita asset value

1. File name: gallup_WVS_GDP_pk.csv

Number of rows and columns: 146,8

Variable list:

Variable name: Happiness Score, Whisker-high, Whisker-low
    Description: from Gallup World Poll as documented in World Happiness Report 2022.
Variable name: GDP-PPP2017
    Description: Gross Domestic Product per capita for year 2020 at PPP (constant 2017 international $). Accessed May 2022. 
Variable name: pk 
    Description: Produced capital per capita for year 2018 (in 2018 US$) for available countries, as estimated by the World Bank (accessed February 2022).
Variable names: WVS7_mean, WVS7_std 
    Description: Results of Question 49 in the World Values Survey, Wave 7.