Study ISSP (2003): study AU 2007

Public

18+ aged, general public, Australia, 2007

Survey name

INT-ISSP 2007

Sample

Probability systematic sample

Respondents

N = 2672

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:

Self report on single question:

If you were to consider your life in general these days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole...?
4  very happy
3  fairly happy
2  not very happy
1  not at all happy

Classification:

O-HL-c-sq-v-4-f

Author's label:

Happiness

Error estimates:

S.e.=0.012

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 1%,   2: 8.3%,   3: 56.1%,   4: 31.1%   (total 96.5%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10

Mean:

3.22 7.10

SD:

0.64 1.77