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Distributional findings

Study Anderson et al. (2009): study MT 2007

Public
18+ aged, general public, Malta, 2007
Survey name
EU-EQLS2007
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 1000
Non Response
27
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
Self report on single question:

All things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life these days? Please tell me on a scale of 1 to 10, where one means very dissatisfied and 10 means very satisfied
10 very satisfied
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1  very dissatisfied
-  don't know
Classification:
O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-b
Page in publication:
7
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.56 7.29
SD:
1.97 2.19
Full text:
Self report on single question:

Taking all things together on a scale of one to 10, how happy would you say you are? Here one means you are very unhappy and 10 means you are very happy
10 very happy
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1  very unhappy
Classification:
O-HL-u-sq-n-10-b
Page in publication:
7
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.90 7.67
SD:
1.74 1.93
Full text:
Self report on single question:

On the whole my life is close to how I would like it to be
1  strongly disagree
2  disagree
3  neither disagree nor agree
4  agree
5  strongly agree
-   don't know
Classification:
C-RA-u-sq-v-5-a
Page in publication:
10
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 4%,   2: 11%,   3: 17%,   4: 57%,   5: 10%   (total 99%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.59 6.17
SD:
0.95 1.91