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Distributional findings

Study Blanchflower & Oswald (2004): study SI 1991

Public
Adults, age range not reported, general public, Slovenia, 1991
Survey name
INT-ISSP 1991
Sample
Probability systematic sample
Respondents
N = 2026
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
Self report on single question:

If you were to consider your life in general these days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole...?
4  very happy
3  fairly happy
2  not very happy
1  not at all happy
Classification:
O-HL-c-sq-v-4-f
Page in publication:
24
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 5%,   2: 35%,   3: 41%,   4: 8%   (total 89%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.58 5.34
SD:
0.73 2.04