Study Timmermans (1997): study ZA 1990
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, South Africa, 1990
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 2736
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Household income
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Single question: "Here is a scale of incomes and we would like to know in what group your household is, counting all wages, salaries, pensions and other incomes that come in" rated on a 10-point scale, recoded to a 8-point scale (scale categories not reported in datafile).
Observed Relation with Happiness
2 M=2.47 Mt=4.9
3 M=2.73 Mt=5.8
4 M=3.17 Mt=7.2
5 M=3.21 Mt=7.4
6 M=3.23 Mt=7.4
7 M=3.23 Mt=7.4
8 M=3.29 Mt=7.6
2 M=5.11 Mt=4.6
3 M=6.00 Mt=5.6
4 M=7.54 Mt=7.3
5 M=7.45 Mt=7.2
6 M=7.58 Mt=7.3
7 M=7.56 Mt=7.3
8 M=7.76 Mt=7.5
2 M= .31 Mt=5.3
3 M=1.23 Mt=6.2
4 M=2.34 Mt=7.3
5 M=2.07 Mt=7.1
6 M=2.47 Mt=7.5
7 M=2.69 Mt=7.7
8 M=2.66 Mt=7.7