Study Burger & Veenhoven (2016): study AU 2012

Public

15+ aged, general public, Australia, 2012

Survey name

Asia Barometer

Sample

Probability multi-stage random

Respondents

N = 1002

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:

Self report on 10 questions:

A  Did you feel well-rested yesterday?
B  Were you treated with respect yesterday?
C  Did you smile and laugh a lot yesterday
D  Did you learn or do something interesting yesterday?

Did you experience the following feelings during A LOT of the day yesterday?
E  How about enjoyment?
F  How about physical pain?
G  How about worry?
H  How about sadness?
I    How about stress?
J   How about anger?

Rated:
0: no
1: yes

Computation:
- Average % positive affect = (A+B+C+D+E)/5
- Average % negative affect = (F+G+H+I+J)/5
- Affect Balance = Average % positive affect - Average % negative affect

Transformation to range 0-10:
(Score[range-100-100] + 100)/200*10

These questions do not measure hedonic level of affect of individual persons adequately, since yesterday's mood does not always correspond with typical average mood. Yet these questions can be used for measuring hedonic level in aggregates, such as nations, since individual variations balance out in big samples.

Transformation to 0-10 scale: (percent abs)*0.05 + 5

Classification:

A-AB-yd-mq-v-2-mb

Observed distribution

Summary Statistics

On original range -100 - 100 On range 0-10

Mean:

51.00 7.55

SD:

- -