Blanchflower & Oswald (2004): study IL 1991
Publication
- Author(s):
- Blanchflower, D.G.; Oswald, A.J.
- Title:
- Well-Being over Time in Britain and the USA.
- Source:
- Journal of Public Economics, 2004, Vol. 88, 1359 -1368 )
Investigation
- Public
- Adults, age range not reported, general public, Israel, 1991
- Survey name
- INT-ISSP 1991
- Sample
- Probability systematic sample
- Respondents
- N = 986
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
If you were to consider your life in general these days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole...?
4 very happy
3 fairly happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-4-f
- Page in publication:
- 24
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 7%, 2: 14%, 3: 59%, 4: 16% (total 96%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.88 6.16
- SD:
- 0.77 2.13