SASAS (2017a): study ZA 2009
Publication
- Author(s):
- SASAS,
- Title:
- South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) website
- Source:
- Human Sciences Research Council
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, South Africa, 2009
- Survey name
- SA-SAS 2009
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 3305
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
All things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life as a whole?
1 completely dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6 neutral
7
8
9
10
11 completely satisfied
(Originally presented on a horizontal scale) - Classification:
- O-SLW-u-sq-n-11-b
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Error estimates:
- S.e.= 0.043
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 2.8%, 2: 2.6%, 3: 4.1%, 4: 6.5%, 5: 10.9%, 6: 17.2%, 7: 11.7%, 8: 14%, 9: 14.1%, 10: 8%, 11: 7.7% (total 99.6%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.92 5.92
- SD:
- 2.49 2.49
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
How happy are you?
5 very happy
4 happy
3 neither happy nor unhappy
2 unhappy
1 very unhappy
- don't know - Classification:
- O-HL-u-sq-v-5-d
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Error estimates:
- S.e.= 0.019
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 7.8%, 2: 18.3%, 3: 18%, 4: 46.8%, 5: 8% (total 98.9%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.29 5.50
- SD:
- 1.10 2.41