Study Moller (1989): study ZA 1983
- Public
- Adult, general public, urban areas, South African, 1983
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 5587
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Structured personal interview
Happiness measure(s)
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taking your life as a whole, are you .......?
5 very satisfied
4 quite satisfied
3 more satisfied than discontented
2 more discontented than satisfied
1 quite dissatisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-u-sq-v-5-d
- Author's label:
- Overall life satisfaction
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 10%, 2: 18%, 3: 4%, 4: 51%, 5: 17% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.47 6.23
- SD:
- 1.24 2.19
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taking all things together in your life, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are ....?
5 very happy
4 happy
3 neither happy nor unhappy
2 unhappy
1 very unhappy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-5-a
- Author's label:
- Global Happiness
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 12%, 2: 13%, 3: 4%, 4: 53%, 5: 17% (total 99%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.51 5.98
- SD:
- 1.26 2.72