. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental … stress, societal trust, and other important variables. Yet a key scientific difficulty tends to be downplayed, or even …

institutional context variables, i.e. trust and the perception of freedom, have higher correlations with the two SWB variables used … estimates reconfirm the importance of trust and, in particular, of the perception of freedom. These variables explain more of …