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Studies

Kataria & Regner (2009): study PR 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, Puerto Rico, 1995-2001
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 1994-2008
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 1884
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: 1.9%,   2: 0.9%,   3: 1.3%,   4: 2%,   5: 6.4%,   6: 5.8%,   7: 8%,   8: 17.2%,   9: 15.3%,   10: 40.8%   (total 99.6%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
8.25 8.06
SD:
2.13 2.36

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding TV watching