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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
O-HL-c-sq-v-5-ab
Focus:
Overall: Happiness in Life (O-HL)
Time frame:
currently (today, these days, presently) (c)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
5

Description

Self report on single question:

How happy do you feel about your life as a whole these days?
5  very happy
4  happy
3  so-so
2  not happy
1  not at all happy

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation Knight & Gunatilaka (2014): study CN 2002 18+ aged, general public, China, 2002 N = 11228
Mean
= 2.670
 Knight & Gunatilaka (2018): study CN 2003 Working aged: rural , rural-urban migrants urban born, China, 2003 N = 1850
Knight & Gunatilaka (2018): study CN 2003 /1 Rural to urban migrants, China, 2003 N = 1850
Mean
= 2.400