Study Bonikowska et al. (2013): study CA 2011 /1

Public

15+aged, general public, Canada, 2011

Survey name

CA-CCHS

Sample

Probability multistage stratified area sample

Respondents

N = 63542

Non Response

30%

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: 0.4%,   2: 0.1%,   3: 0.4%,   4: 0.8%,   5: 1.2%,   6: 5%,   7: 5.2%,   8: 16.6%,   9: 33.5%,   10: 19%,   11: 17.7%   (total 99.9%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10

Mean:

7.97 7.97

SD:

1.36 1.36