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Studies

Kataria & Regner (2009): study MX 1995

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, Mexico, 1995- 2000
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 1994-2008
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 3045
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: 3%,   2: 0.9%,   3: 2%,   4: 2.5%,   5: 7.6%,   6: 6.2%,   7: 9.6%,   8: 17.8%,   9: 14.9%,   10: 33.6%   (total 98.1%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.91 7.67
SD:
2.30 2.56

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding TV watching