Botha et al. (2018): study ZA 2012
Publication
- Author(s):
- Botha, F.; Booysen, F.R.; Wouters, E.
- Title:
- Happiness, Socioeconomic Status, and Family Functioning in South African Households: a Structural Equation Modelling Approach
- Source:
- Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2018, Vol. 13, 947-989
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged general public, South Africa, 2012
- Survey name
- SA-SAS 2012_1
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage cluster sample
- Respondents
- N = 2111
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
If you were to consider your life in general, how happy of unhappy would you say you are, on the whole?
7 completely happy
6 very happy
5 fairly happy
4 neither happy nor unhappy
3 fairly unhappy
2 very unhappy
1 completely unhappy
- can't choose
- no answer - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-v-7-ab
- Author's label:
- happiness
- Page in publication:
- 955
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 2.9%, 2: 8.1%, 3: 8.7%, 4: 8.1%, 5: 24.9%, 6: 34%, 7: 13.4% (total 100.1%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 4.99 6.86
- SD:
- 1.58 3.01