Study Moller et al. (1987): study ZA 1983

Public

16+ aged, general public, South Africa, 1983

Survey name

SA-QOL 1983

Sample

Probability multistage stratified area sample

Respondents

N = 5587

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:

Self report on single question:

Taking all together, would you say you are:
5  very happy
4  fairly happy
3  neither happy not unhappy
2  fairly unhappy
1 very unhappy

Classification:

O-HL-c-sq-v-5-g

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 12.1%,   2: 13.3%,   3: 4.1%,   4: 53.3%,   5: 17.2%   (total 100%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10

Mean:

3.50 5.80

SD:

1.26 2.53