Study SASAS (2017a): study ZA 2012 /2
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, South Africa, 2012
- Survey name
- SA-SAS 2012_1
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 2509
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness measure(s)
- Full text:
- 
            Self report on single question
 
 All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?
 5 very satisfied
 4 satisfied
 3 neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
 2 not satisfied
 1 not satisfied at all
- Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-v-5-fd
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Error estimates:
- S.e.= 0.029
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 9.7%, 2: 23.2%, 3: 10.7%, 4: 46.6%, 5: 9.7% (total 99.9%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.23 6.20
- SD:
- 1.19 2.90
- Full text:
- 
            Self report on single question:
 
 How happy are you?
 5 very happy
 4 happy
 3 neither happy nor unhappy
 2 unhappy
 1 very unhappy
 - don't know
- Classification:
- O-HL-u-sq-v-5-d
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Error estimates:
- S.e.=0.0
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 11.2%, 2: 15.7%, 3: 11.4%, 4: 40.6%, 5: 15.5% (total 94.4%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.35 5.64
- SD:
- 1.27 2.77