Chow (2012): study CA Calgary, Alberta 2007
Publication
- Author(s):
- Chow, H.P.
- Title:
- Health Care Service Needs and Correlates of Quality of Life: A Case Study of Elderly Chinese Immigrants in Canada
- Source:
- Social Indicators Research, 2012, Vol. 106, 347 - 358
Investigation
- Public
- 65+aged Chinese migrants, Calgary, Canada, 2007
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 127
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Interviews were conducted at immigrants' place of residence by trained, bilingual interviewers employing a structured questionnaire .These interviews were conducted in English or a Chinese dialect (e.g., Cantonese, Mandarin, or Taishanese) spoken by the participants. The average length of the interviews was 30 min, with a range from 20 min to nearly an hour.
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
… satisfied with overall life.. (full text not reported)
1 very dissatisfied
2 dissatisfied
3 neutral
4 satisfied
5 very satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-?-sq-v-5-a
- Author's label:
- Life Satisfaction
- Page in publication:
- 351
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
I am happy most of the time
5 strongly agree
4
3
2
1 strongly disagree - Classification:
- M-TH-g-sq-v-5-h
- Author's label:
- Psychological well-being
- Remarks:
- This question was part of a 5 item index.
- Page in publication:
- 352
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 0 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.78 -
- SD:
- 1.11 -