Study Czapinski & Panek (2007): study PL 1994

Public

16+ aged, general public, Poland, 1994

Survey name

PL-Social Diagnosis1994

Sample

Probability multistage stratified area sample

Respondents

N = 2302

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:

Self report on single question:

How do you feel about your life as a whole.....?
7  delighted
6  pleased
5  mostly satisfied
4  mixed
3  mostly dissatisfied
2  unhappy
1  terrible

Name: Andrews & Withey's `Delighted-Terrible Scale'  (original version)

Classification:

O-DT-u-sq-v-7-a

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 0.5%,   2: 2.3%,   3: 8.3%,   4: 30.2%,   5: 34.7%,   6: 22.9%,   7: 1.2%   (total 100.1%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10

Mean:

4.70 6.16

SD:

1.05 1.75

Full text:

Self report on single question:

Taken all together, how would you say things are these days?   Would you say that you are....?
3  very happy
2  pretty happy
1  not too happy

Classification:

O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aa

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 31.6%,   2: 64%,   3: 4.4%   (total 100%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10

Mean:

1.73 5.99

SD:

0.53 1.39