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Japanese General Social Survey (2013): study JP 2008

Publication

Author(s):
Japanese General Social Survey,
Title:
Japanese General Social Survey: Dataset.
Source:
JGSS Research Center

Investigation

Public
20-89 aged, Japan, 2008
Survey name
JP-GSS 2008
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 2160
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question

Are you happy?
5  happy
4
3
2
1  unhappy
-   no answer
Classification:
O-HL-u-sq-n-5-a
Author's label:
degree of happiness
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 1.2%,   2: 5%,   3: 26.8%,   4: 34.1%,   5: 32.1%   (total 99.2%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.92 7.29
SD:
0.95 2.37