Covid-19 and life satisfaction across Europe

Figures & data

Figure 1. Relative new Covid-19 cases and stringency index across country groups and time.

Table 1. Regression results

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)^b
Relative new cases	-0.023(0.027)		-0.016(0.027)
Stringency Index		-0.009**(0.004)	-0.009*(0.005)
North # Relative new cases				-0.143***(0.032)	-0.065(0.052)	-0.084**(0.030)	-0.081***(0.024)
West # Relative new cases				0.036(0.045)	0.018(0.043)	0.003(0.043)	-0.048(0.039)
South # Relative new cases				-0.015(0.048)	0.014(0.052)	0.007(0.046)	-0.007(0.040)
North # Stringency index					0.019*(0.010)	0.022**(0.007)	0.017**(0.006)
West # Stringency index					-0.011**(0.004)	-0.019***(0.004)	-0.017***(0.003)
South # Stringency index					-0.010(0.006)	-0.010(0.007)	-0.009(0.005)
North	-0.175(0.253)	-0.321(0.291)	-0.331(0.275)	0.108(0.208)	0.522***(0.122)	-0.068(0.203)	-0.286(0.192)
South	0.060(0.121)	0.096(0.107)	0.103(0.115)	0.198(0.269)	0.083(0.273)	-0.232(0.249)	-0.422*(0.212)
Constant	2.963***(0.599)	2.993***(0.598)	3.012***(0.516)	2.553**(1.001)	3.155***(0.975)	2.803**(1.025)	3.621***(0.948)
Socio-demographics	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Trend, Time Dummies	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Life Satisfaction 2016^a	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Country groups # duration policy measures						✓	✓
Country groups # trust in healthcare							✓
N	47,881	47,881	47,881	47,881	47,881	47,881	47,750

Standard errors in parentheses. * p < 0.1, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01 – Additional controls: age groups, gender, education groups, urbanization level, having a partner, living alone/with a partner, health status, financial situation, week dummies, time trend. Reference group: Country groups – West. ^aThis variable controls for differences in live satisfaction across countries before the pandemic and the latest available Eurofound European Quality of Life Survey 2016. ^bThe variable “trust in healthcare” is not available from some respondents which explains the drop in the number of observations to 47,750.