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World Values Survey (2004): study EG 2000

Publication

Author(s):
World Values Survey,
Title:
Aggregated Datafile European Values Survey 1999 and World Values Survey 2000. File name: WVSEVS_sb_v4.sav, 2004
Source:
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org

Investigation

Public
16+ aged, general public, Egypt, 2000
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 4
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 3000
Non Response
0
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
1   dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10  satisfied
Classification:
O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a
Remarks:
Values 5 and 8 are missing; value 7 had a N of 1
After selection of a random sample of PSU's(26 Egyptian governates), eliglible persons with certain educational level were selected. Substitution for 250 respondents because of errors or illogical answers.
Page in publication:
a170
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 2.3%,   2: 42.8%,   3: 2.4%,   4: 2.2%,   5: 0%,   6: 6.7%,   7: 0%,   8: 0%,   9: 43.3%,   10: 0.1%   (total 99.8%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
5.36 4.84
SD:
3.35 3.72
Full text:
Self report on single question:

Taking all things together, would you say you are.....?
4  very happy
3  quite happy
2  not very happy
1  not at all happy.
Classification:
O-HL-u-sq-v-4-a
Remarks:
After selection of a random sample of PSU's(26 Egyptian governates), eliglible persons with certain educational level were selected. Substitution for 250 respondents because of errors or illogical answers.
Page in publication:
a008
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 1.6%,   2: 8.8%,   3: 71.3%,   4: 18.1%   (total 99.8%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.06 7.17
SD:
0.57 1.58