Study Ventegodt (1997): study DK 1993

Public

31-33 aged, born at the university hospital, Denmark, 1993

Sample

Respondents

N = 4626

Non Response

36%

Assessment

Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
Data were taken from the medical files of mothers and their babies

Correlate

Authors's Label

Diseases in first year of life

Our Classification

Remarks

Diseases are not mutually exclusive, so only absolute frequencies are given and N of 2 is unknown

Distribution

N:    1:989;   2b:26;   2c:224;    2d:129;   2e:198;   2f:4;   2g:1951;   2h:39;   2i:23;   2j:12;   2k:16;   2l:51;   2m:411;   2n:506;   2o:466;   2p:184;   2q:524;   2r:185;   2s:9;   2t:176;   2u:156;   2v:5;   2w:120;   2x:207;   2y:61;   2z:92;   2aa:101;   2ab:168;   2ac:173;   2ad:17;   2ae:57;   2af:12

Operationalization

Diseases in  first year of life as reported in medical file
1: no diseases
2: one or more of the following diseases:
   2b: mumps
   2c: german measles
   2d: measles
   2e: chicken pox
   2f: polio/lymph meningitis
   2g: "catharrhalia"/influenza/fever
   2h: exanth.sub.
   2i: others
   2j: meningitis (bacteria)
   2k: paralysis
   2l: convulsions
   2m: conjunctivis
   2n: otitis
   2o: bronchitis
   2p: pneumonia
   2q: vomiting/period of  diarrhea(infectious character)
   2r: pertussis
   2s: scarlet fever
   2t: hemoglobin 71-80%
   2u: hemoglobin under 70 %
   2v: TB or yubercular knock
   2w: craniotabes
   2x: constant head cold for more than 2  months
   2y: laryngial stridor
   2z: bronchial asthma
   2aa: recognized allergy to food
   2ab: eczma or other skin allergy
   2ac: pyodermia
   2ad: stomatitis
   2ae: anemia
   2af: other

Observed Relation with Happiness