Study ISSP (2003): study IE 2001

Public

Adults, age range not reported, general public, Ireland, 2001

Survey name

INT-ISSP 2002

Sample

Probability multi-stage random

Respondents

N = 1240

Non Response

38,49

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?
4  very happy
3  fairly happy
2  not so happy
1  not at all happy

Classification:

O-HL-g-sq-v-4-h

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 0.81%,   2: 2.66%,   3: 51.69%,   4: 41.85%   (total 97.01%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10

Mean:

3.39 7.58

SD:

0.59 1.65