Blaauw & Pretorius (2013): study ZA 2008
Publication
- Author(s):
- Blaauw, D.; Pretorius, A.
- Title:
- The Determinants of Subjective Well-Being in South Africa - An Exploratory Enquiry.
- Source:
- Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2013, Vol. 6, 179 - 194.
Investigation
- Public
- 20+ aged general public, South Africa, 2008
- Survey name
- SA-NIDS Panel study
- Sample
- Probability stratified sample
- Respondents
- N = 13792
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question
How do you feel about your life as a whole right now?
1 very dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 very satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-n
- Author's label:
- Subjective well-being
- Page in publication:
- 183
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 7.35%, 2: 5.1%, 3: 9.1%, 4: 13.3%, 5: 18.5%, 6: 12.7%, 7: 11.6%, 8: 9.7%, 9: 3.3%, 10: 8.7% (total 99.35%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.46 4.95
- SD:
- 2.48 2.75