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Prime Minister's Office (1985): study JP 1958

Publication

Author(s):
Prime Minister's Office,
Title:
Public Opinion Survey on the Life of the Nation.
Source:
Foreign Press Center, August 1985, Tokyo, Japan

Investigation

Public
20+ aged, general public, Japan, 1958
Survey name
JP-Life-in-nation1958
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 15941
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

By the way, how do you feel about your life?
4  My life could be better, but on the whole I am satisfied with my current life
3  I am not satisfied with my current life, but it is not too bad to keep more or less on the current level
2  My current life is far from satisfactory
1  I cannot stand my current life
Classification:
O-SLu-c-sq-v-4-f
Page in publication:
11
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 9%,   2: 29%,   3: 44%,   4: 16%   (total 98%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.68 5.73
SD:
0.85 2.13