Study Bonikowska et al. (2013): study CA 2009 /1

Public

15+aged, general public, Canada, 2009

Survey name

CA-CCHS

Sample

Probability multistage stratified area sample

Respondents

N = 61673

Non Response

27%

Assessment

Interview: Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI)
Half of the respondents were interviewed by computer-assisted telephone, the other half by computer-assisted personal interview.

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:

Self report on single question:

All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?
0  very dissatisfied
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 very satisfied

Classification:

O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-eb

Author's label:

Happiness

Page in publication:

11-13

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 0.5%,   2: 0.2%,   3: 0.4%,   4: 0.7%,   5: 1%,   6: 5.3%,   7: 5.1%,   8: 16.2%,   9: 32.9%,   10: 18.6%,   11: 19.1%   (total 100%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10

Mean:

7.99 7.99

SD:

1.37 1.37