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Studies

Kataria & Regner (2009): study UA 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, Ukraine, 1996
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 3
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 2811
Non Response
14,9%
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: 18.4%,   2: 9.5%,   3: 15.5%,   4: 12.5%,   5: 19.6%,   6: 6.8%,   7: 4.6%,   8: 4.3%,   9: 1.7%,   10: 2.1%   (total 95%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.95 3.28
SD:
2.28 2.53

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding TV watching