Inglehart et al. (2008): study JP 2005
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, Japan, 2005
- Survey name
- INT-WorldValuesSurvey 5
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 1096
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
On the whole, now, do you think you are happy or not?
4 very happy
3 somewhat happy
2 not so happy
1 absolutely not happy
- don't know - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-4-p
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1.1%, 2: 8.9%, 3: 58.9%, 4: 28.4% (total 97.3%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.18 7.42
- SD:
- 0.63 1.67
- 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: 0.9%, 2: 1.1%, 3: 3.7%, 4: 3.5%, 5: 8.4%, 6: 15.6%, 7: 20%, 8: 27.5%, 9: 13.3%, 10: 4.6% (total 98.6%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.99 6.66
- SD:
- 1.81 2.01