Anderson et al. (2009): study SE 2007
Publication
- Author(s):
- Anderson, R.; Lyly-Yrjanainen, M.; Mikulic, B.; Vermeylen, G.; Zigante, V.
- Title:
- Second European Quality of Life Survey. Overview.
- Source:
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 2009, Dublin, Ireland
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, Sweden, 2007
- Survey name
- EU-EQLS2007
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage random
- Respondents
- N = 1017
- Non Response
- 0
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
All things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life these days? Please tell me on a scale of 1 to 10, where one means very dissatisfied and 10 means very satisfied
10 very satisfied
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1 very dissatisfied
- don't know - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-b
- Page in publication:
- 7
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 8.34 8.16
- SD:
- 1.62 1.80
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taking all things together on a scale of one to 10, how happy would you say you are? Here one means you are very unhappy and 10 means you are very happy
10 very happy
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1 very unhappy - Classification:
- O-HL-u-sq-n-10-b
- Page in publication:
- 7
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 8.18 7.98
- SD:
- 1.61 1.79
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
On the whole my life is close to how I would like it to be
1 strongly disagree
2 disagree
3 neither disagree nor agree
4 agree
5 strongly agree
- don't know - Classification:
- C-RA-u-sq-v-5-a
- Page in publication:
- 10
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 4%, 2: 6%, 3: 4%, 4: 45%, 5: 41% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 4.13 7.26
- SD:
- 1.02 2.03