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World Values Survey (2004): study BR 1998

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
18+ aged, general public, Brazil, 1998
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurv 1-5
Sample
Selection from general population sample
Respondents
N = 1471
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:
Brazil: Only wave 2 (1991), wave3 (1997) and wave 5 (2005) aggregated
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 3.5%,   2: 2.2%,   3: 3.1%,   4: 3.6%,   5: 14.6%,   6: 7.6%,   7: 11.3%,   8: 16.3%,   9: 9%,   10: 28.2%   (total 99.4%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.27 6.97
SD:
2.51 2.79