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Distributional findings

Study Cummins (2024): study AU 2014

Public
18+ aged, general public, Australia, 2014
Survey name
AU-WI survey 31
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 983
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
Self report on single question:

Thinking about your own life and personal circumstances, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole?
0   completely unsatisfied
1
2
3
4
5  neither unsatisfied nor satisfied
6
7
8
9
10  completely satisfied

First item in Cummins' 'Personal Well-being Scale' (labels used since 2005)
Classification:
O-SLW-u-sq-n-11-cb
Author's label:
Global Life satisfaction (GLS)
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.79 -
SD:
1.55 -