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Distributional findings

Study ISSP (2003): study SE 2002

Public
Adults, age range not reported, general public, Sweden, 2002
Survey name
INT-ISSP 2002
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 1080
Non Response
40,45
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: 0.28%,   2: 0.74%,   3: 2.13%,   4: 15.56%,   5: 40.56%,   6: 31.02%,   7: 7.59%   (total 97.88%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
Mean:
5.24 7.30
SD:
0.97 1.91