Moller (2006a): study ZA 1999
Publication
- Author(s):
- Moller, V.
- Title:
- Personal communication
- Source:
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, South Africa, 1999
- Survey name
- SA-QOL 1999
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 2200
- Non Response
- 0
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taken all things together, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days? On the whole, would you say you are.....?
5 very satisfied
4 satisfied
3 neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
2 dissatisfied
1 very dissatisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-v-5-g
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 18.4%, 2: 25.5%, 3: 2.4%, 4: 36.9%, 5: 16.1% (total 99.3%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.07 5.85
- SD:
- 1.42 3.16
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taking all together, would you say you are:
5 very happy
4 fairly happy
3 neither happy not unhappy
2 fairly unhappy
1 very unhappy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-5-g
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 17.7%, 2: 16.7%, 3: 3.4%, 4: 43%, 5: 17.4% (total 98.2%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.26 5.36
- SD:
- 1.40 2.84