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Studies

Kataria & Regner (2009): study BY 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
18+ general public, Belarus, 1996
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 3
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 2092
Non Response
51.2%
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: 12.5%,   2: 8.7%,   3: 15.6%,   4: 12.9%,   5: 25.3%,   6: 7.2%,   7: 7.4%,   8: 5.6%,   9: 2.1%,   10: 1.7%   (total 99%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
4.35 3.72
SD:
2.19 2.43

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding TV watching