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Studies

Kataria & Regner (2009): study BD 1996

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
15+ general public, Bangladesh, 1996-2002
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 1994-2008
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 3025
Non Response
5%
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: 3%,   2: 1.7%,   3: 6.3%,   4: 8.2%,   5: 27.4%,   6: 11.7%,   7: 12%,   8: 11.9%,   9: 5.9%,   10: 10.1%   (total 98.2%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
6.10 5.66
SD:
2.24 2.49

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding TV watching