Guven & Hoxha (2015): study NL 1993
Publication
- Author(s):
- Guven, C.; Hoxha, I.
- Title:
- Rain or Shine: Happiness and Risk-Taking.
- Source:
- The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2015, Vol. 57, 1 - 10
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged, Netherlands, 1993-2006
- Survey name
- NL-DHS
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 32000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question
To what extent do you consider yourself a happy person....?
5 very happy
4 happy
3 neither happy nor unhappy
2 not very happy
1 unhappy - Classification:
- O-HP-u-sq-v-5-a
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 3,6
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0%, 2: 0.5%, 3: 15%, 4: 66%, 5: 18.5% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 4.03 -
- SD:
- 0.60 -