Study Seik (2000): study SG 1998

Public

15+ aged, Singapore,1998

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Probability stratified sample

Respondents

N = 2200

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
Structured questionnaire was used.

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:

Self report on two questions:

A:  At this present moment, how do you feel about your life as a whole?

B: Taking all the aspects of life above into consideration, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole at present?

Each rated
1  very dissatisfied
2  dissatisfied
3  neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
4  satisfied
5  very satisfied

Computation:( A+B )/2

Classification:

O-SLW-c-mq-v-5-a

Author's label:

Overall life satisfaction

Remarks:

QOL 2% lower then in 1997. Highest mean QOL score: 4,02 SD 0,83; lowest mean QOL score: 3,16 SD 0,63; number of respondents 24 and 16 respectively.

Page in publication:

37

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 0.5%,   2: 7.1%,   3: 49.2%,   4: 40.9%,   5: 2.4%   (total 100.1%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10

Mean:

3.38 6.37

SD:

0.67 1.99