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Studies

Kataria & Regner (2009): study AM 1997

Publication

Author(s):
Kataria, M.; Regner, T.
Title:
A Note on the Relationship between Television Viewing and individual Happiness.
Source:
Jena Economic Research Papers 2009-098, 2009, Jena Germany

Investigation

Public
18+ general public, Armenia, 1997
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 3
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 2000
Non Response
9,6
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

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
Author's label:
Life satisfaction
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 14.3%,   2: 10.5%,   3: 16.4%,   4: 12.8%,   5: 17%,   6: 9.3%,   7: 8.2%,   8: 5.7%,   9: 2.9%,   10: 2.4%   (total 99.5%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
4.32 3.69
SD:
2.36 2.62

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding TV watching