Inglehart et al. (2008): study GB 2006
Publication
- Author(s):
- Inglehart, R.; Foa, R.; Peterson, C.
- Title:
- Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness.
- Source:
- Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2008, Vol. 3, 264 - 285
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, United Kingdom, 2006
- Survey name
- INT-WorldValuesSurvey 5
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 1038
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taking all things together, would you say you are.....?
4 very happy
3 quite happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy. - Classification:
- O-HL-u-sq-v-4-a
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1.2%, 2: 5.2%, 3: 42.7%, 4: 50.7% (total 99.8%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.43 8.01
- SD:
- 0.65 1.64
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
1 dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a
- Page in publication:
- v22
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.8%, 2: 0.2%, 3: 1%, 4: 1.6%, 5: 6.6%, 6: 9.4%, 7: 20.5%, 8: 33.3%, 9: 15.4%, 10: 10.9% (total 99.7%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.60 7.33
- SD:
- 1.61 1.79