| 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 |
| URL | HTTP://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/hap_bib/freetexts/~PrimeMinister'sOffice_1985.pdf |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 20+ aged, general public, Japan, 1958 |
| Collect period | 2 |
| Survey name | JP-Life-in-nation1958 |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Respondents N = | 15941 |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: By the way, how do you feel about your life? 4 My life could be better, but on the whoile I am satisfied with my current life 3 I am not satisfied with my current life, but it is not too bad to kerep 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 |
| DKNA % | 2.0 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 4 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.68 | 5.73 |
| Standard deviation | 0.85 | 2.13 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| % | 9.0 | 29.0 | 44.0 | 16.0 |