Deen & Wilcke (2005): study NL 2005
Publication
- Author(s):
- Deen, N.; Wilcke, E.
- Title:
- Truckergeluk. 2005. (The Happiness of Truck Drivers. 2005)
- Source:
- Projectpaper I0869, Motivaction International i.o.o. Randstad (Temp Agency), 2005, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged truck drivers, The Netherlands, 2005
- Sample
- Probability stratified sample
- Respondents
- N = 340
- Non Response
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
Face-to-face interviews (n=226) in 4 truck driver-wayside restaurants. Truck drivers who participated in panelstudy on happiness in 2005 were requested to participate by e-mail (n=114)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
To what degree you consider yourself as a happy person?
1 very unhappy
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 very happy - Classification:
- O-HP-u-sq-n-10-a
- Author's label:
- happiness
- Page in publication:
- 8
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.80 -
- SD:
- - -