Study ISSP (2003): study CH 2002

Public

Adults, age range not reported, general public, Switzerland, 2002-03

Survey name

INT-ISSP 2002

Sample

Probability multi-stage random

Respondents

N = 1008

Non Response

54,7

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:

Self report on single question:

If you were to consider your life in general, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole?
7  completely happy
6  very happy
5  fairly happy
4  neither happy nor unhappy
3  fairly unhappy
2  very unhappy
1  completely unhappy
-   can't choose
-   no answer

Classification:

O-HL-g-sq-v-7-a

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 0%,   2: 0.1%,   3: 0.79%,   4: 7.24%,   5: 38.99%,   6: 44.35%,   7: 8.23%   (total 99.7%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10

Mean:

5.52 7.89

SD:

0.79 1.66