variables

This table contains all the variables of all the datasets we have at Our World In Data. Note that this includes only the information about the variables like name and default display settings, not the data itself.

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2 rows where datasetId = 438 sorted by id descending

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id ▲ name unit description createdAt updatedAt code coverage timespan datasetId sourceId shortUnit display columnOrder originalMetadata grapherConfigAdmin shortName catalogPath dimensions schemaVersion processingLevel processingLog titlePublic titleVariant attributionShort attribution descriptionShort descriptionFromProducer descriptionKey descriptionProcessing licenses license grapherConfigETL type sort dataChecksum metadataChecksum
1765 Share of people who are happy (World Value Survey 2014 - first and last waves) % Share of people who say they are 'very happy' or 'rather happy'. Full question asks: "Taking all things together, would you say you are (i) Very happy, (ii) Rather happy, (iii) Not very happy, (iv) Not at all happy, (v) Don't know". In this variable only observations from first and last waves are included for each country. The same variable with all waves is available in https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-people-who-say-they-are-happy 2017-04-25 19:10:47 2023-06-15 05:05:42   Global by country 1984-2014 Life satisfaction – World Value Survey (2014) 438 World Value Survey (2014) 560 % 
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    "unit": "Rate"
}
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1704 Share of people who are happy (World Value Survey 2014) % Share of people who say they are 'very happy' or 'rather happy'. Full question asks: "Taking all things together, would you say you are (i) Very happy, (ii) Rather happy, (iii) Not very happy, (iv) Not at all happy, (v) Don't know". 2017-04-24 23:58:32 2023-06-15 05:05:42   Global by country 1981-2014 Life satisfaction – World Value Survey (2014) 438 World Value Survey (2014) 560 % 
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    "unit": "Percent"
}
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CREATE TABLE "variables" (
	"id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
	"name" VARCHAR(750) NULL  ,
	"unit" VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL  ,
	"description" TEXT NULL  ,
	"createdAt" DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ,
	"updatedAt" DATETIME NULL  ,
	"code" VARCHAR(255) NULL  ,
	"coverage" VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL  ,
	"timespan" VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL  ,
	"datasetId" INTEGER NOT NULL  ,
	"sourceId" INTEGER NULL  ,
	"shortUnit" VARCHAR(255) NULL  ,
	"display" TEXT NOT NULL  ,
	"columnOrder" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' ,
	"originalMetadata" TEXT NULL  ,
	"grapherConfigAdmin" TEXT NULL  ,
	"shortName" VARCHAR(255) NULL  ,
	"catalogPath" VARCHAR(767) NULL  ,
	"dimensions" TEXT NULL  ,
	"schemaVersion" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT '1' ,
	"processingLevel" VARCHAR(30) NULL  ,
	"processingLog" TEXT NULL  ,
	"titlePublic" VARCHAR(512) NULL  ,
	"titleVariant" VARCHAR(255) NULL  ,
	"attributionShort" VARCHAR(512) NULL  ,
	"attribution" TEXT NULL  ,
	"descriptionShort" TEXT NULL  ,
	"descriptionFromProducer" TEXT NULL  ,
	"descriptionKey" TEXT NULL  ,
	"descriptionProcessing" TEXT NULL  ,
	"licenses" TEXT NULL  ,
	"license" TEXT NULL  ,
	"grapherConfigETL" TEXT NULL  ,
	"type" TEXT NULL  ,
	"sort" TEXT NULL  ,
	"dataChecksum" VARCHAR(64) NULL  ,
	"metadataChecksum" VARCHAR(64) NULL,
	FOREIGN KEY("datasetId") REFERENCES "datasets" ("id") ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT,
	FOREIGN KEY("sourceId") REFERENCES "sources" ("id") ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT
);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "idx_catalogPath" ON "variables" ("catalogPath");
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "unique_short_name_per_dataset" ON "variables" ("shortName", "datasetId");
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "variables_code_fk_dst_id_7bde8c2a_uniq" ON "variables" ("code", "datasetId");
CREATE INDEX "variables_datasetId_50a98bfd_fk_datasets_id" ON "variables" ("datasetId");
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "variables_name_fk_dst_id_f7453c33_uniq" ON "variables" ("name", "datasetId");
CREATE INDEX "variables_sourceId_31fce80a_fk_sources_id" ON "variables" ("sourceId");