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Studies

Kataria & Regner (2009): study AZ 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, Azerbaijan, 1997
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 3
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 2002
Non Response
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: 6.3%,   2: 3.5%,   3: 9.7%,   4: 12.9%,   5: 25.2%,   6: 9.2%,   7: 10.1%,   8: 11.7%,   9: 4.9%,   10: 4.5%   (total 98%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
5.39 4.88
SD:
2.29 2.55

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding TV watching