Life satisfaction from the European Social Survey (rounds 1–8, 2002–2016), weighted regional means for 16 German Länder. Berlin excluded from the statistical comparison — the unified city mixes former East and West sectors (shown in gray).
Top: density distributions for East and West. Middle: all 16 Länder ranked, with individual data points. Bottom: bootstrap 95% confidence intervals (10,000 resamples) — no overlap.
Gap = 0.77 points on a 0–10 scale. Exact permutation test across all 3,003 possible groupings: p = 0.0003.
Tools: Python, matplotlib, scipy. [Notebook and dataset on Kaggle](lhttps://www.kaggle.com/code/mycarta/european-regions-happiness-kinship-church-expo).
by Effective-Aioli1828
6 Comments
I wonder why Hamburg does so poorly. It’s doing well economically and there is no clear city-state factor since Bremen (which is less economically successful) fares better.
Although they may be significantly different the range we are discussing here is only 6.4 to 7.8.
It would be interesting to see this in comparison to other European countries.
What’s going on in Sachsen Anhalt?
Soviet authoritarian system of governance fucks up society for generations. Quelle surprise.
Very interesting graph actually
Interesting data, I would be interested to see if there is a trend along years, if east/west differences increase/decrase between the half older and half more recent datasets
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