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Distributional findings

Study Veenhoven & Ehrhardt (1995): study ZZ 1980

Public
Adults, general public, 32 countries, around 1980
Sample
Mixed samples
Respondents
N = 35000
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
Self report on single question:

Here are some words and phrases. We would like you to use these in describing how you feel about your present life..
1  unhappy
2
3
4
5
6
7  happy

(originally presented horizontally)

Item in Campbell's semantic differential scale
Classification:
O-HL-c-sq-n-7-a
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
Mean:
5.23 -
SD:
1.30 -
Full text:
Self report on single question:

Various questions on overall satisfaction with life as a whole rated on numeral scales.
Scores transformed linearly to scale 0-10 and next retransformed to range 1-7 e
Classification:
O-SLW-*-sq-nt-7-a