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Prime Minister's Office (1985): study JP 1969

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, 1969
Survey name
JP-Life-in-Nation1969
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 16848
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

How do you feel about your life?
4  sufficiently satisfied
3  rather satisfied, but not sufficiently
2  fairly dissatisfied
1  extremely dissatisfied
-   not sure
Classification:
O-SLu-u-sq-v-4-e
Page in publication:
11
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 4%,   2: 31%,   3: 57.8%,   4: 5.7%   (total 98.5%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.66 5.53
SD:
0.65 1.47