Elchardus & Smits (2007): study BE 2006
Publication
- Author(s):
- Elchardus, M.; Smits, W.
- Title:
- Het Grootste Geluk.( The Greatest Happiness).
- Source:
- LannooCampus, 2007, Leuven, Belgium
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, Belgium, 2006
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 4487
- Non Response
- 53
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
How satisfied are you with your life in general? Indicate your satisfaction by giving a number between 0 and 10, where 0 means 'completely dissatisfied' and 10 'completely satisfied'. So, the more satisfied you are the higher the number.
0 completely unsatisfied
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 completely satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLu-g-sq-n-11-a
- Remarks:
- Detail abour sampling on www.vub.ac.be/TOR
- Page in publication:
- 69
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.7%, 2: 0.7%, 3: 1.7%, 4: 3.1%, 5: 3.1%, 6: 9.6%, 7: 10.2%, 8: 24.1%, 9: 32.3%, 10: 10.8%, 11: 3.8% (total 100.1%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.97 6.97
- SD:
- 1.84 1.84