Study OECD (2017): study DO 2015

Public

15-16 aged, secundary school students, Dominican Republic, 2017

Survey name

INT-PISA 2015

Sample

Respondents

N = 4740

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Sense of belonging at school

Our Classification

Remarks

The answers to three items were reserved-coded so that higher values in the index indicate a greater sense of belonging.

Distribution

quartiles

Operationalization

Selfreport on 6 statements
a: I feel like an outsider at school
b: I make friends easily at school
c: I feel like I belong at school
d: I feel awkward and out of place in my school
e: other students seem to like me
f: I feel lonely at school

Each rated
4 strongly agree
3 agree
2 disagree
1 strongly disagree

Observed Relation with Happiness