Margret Fine-Davis

TL;DR: In this paper, Esping-Andersen et al. compared four countries: Denmark, Ireland, Italy, and France, focusing on the effect of the birth of the youngest child on work and family life.

TL;DR: This article presented data from a nationwide survey of social indicators of living conditions in Ireland, which was part of a European Community (EC)-harmonised survey of subjective social indicators carried out in eight EC countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report results from a nationwide study, based on a representative sample in the Republic of Ireland, which is part of a harmonised study of subjective social indicators which has been carried out in eight member countries of the European Community.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a cross-cultural comparative study of the attitudes of secondary school students and their teachers in six European countries: Ireland, the UK, France, Latvia, Italy and Spain.

Abstract: This paper reports results of a harmonised study of subjective social indicators carried out in eight member countries of the European Community, sponsored, on an experimental basis, by the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Luxembourg). Comparative data from nationwide representative samples from Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark are presented for three key dependent measures of perceived well-being: Self-Assessed Health, Satisfaction with Housing and Life Satisfaction. The cross-cultural generalisability of the influence of demographic variables on these three measures in examined, using 4-way analysis of variance. The analyses revealed a remarkable consistency across nations in terms of the effects of certain demographic variables on some of the dependent measures; however, some inconsistencies were also revealed. Substantial discrepancies in mean scores of the same sub-groups in different countries were also observed. While further research would be required to determine whether these differences were due to objective circumstances or to cultural differences in subjective perceptions or response patterns, some tentative interpretations of the differences were put forth.