How Comparable are the Gallup World Poll Life Satisfaction Data?

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Who Benefits from Economic Freedom? Unraveling the Effect of Economic Freedom on Subjective Well-Being (2013, unknown): “In a different context, Bjørnskov, Dreher, Fischer, Schnellenbach and Gehring (2013) show, for example, that people with a higher fairness perception are less negatively affected by income inequality.”
Good Governance and Happiness in Nations: Technical Quality Precedes Democracy and Quality Beats Size (2010, background): “See for instance the contributions by NG and Ho (2006)and Bjørnskov et al. (2007). In NG’s assessment public expenditures are too low because people underestimate the utility of public goods.”
The Economics of Happiness (2021, background): “The correlation between ladder-of-life and life satisfaction questions is about 0.75 (Bjørnskov, 2010).”
Differences in Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking Across 63 Countries (2017, background): “Researchers warn against drawing conclusions based on comparisons using only one of these two data sets, because they are not directly comparable despite both purporting to measure subjective well-being across cultures (Bjørnskov, 2010).”
Trust and Wellbeing (2010, unknown): “Bjørnskov (2010b) and Helliwell (2008) found systematic national-level differences between early waves of the Cantril Ladder used in GWP and life satisfaction in WVS.”