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Keck & Delhey (2004): study MT 2003

Publication

Author(s):
Keck, W.; Delhey, J.
Title:
Subjective Well-Being.
Source:
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, "Quality of Life in Europe. First European Quality of Life Survey 2003 ", 2004, Dublin, Ireland, Chapter 7

Investigation

Public
18+ aged, general public, Malta, 2003
Survey name
EU-EQLS 2003
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 600
Non Response
9
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

Taking all things together on a scale of one to 10, how happy would you say you are? Here one means you are very unhappy and 10 means you are very happy
10 very happy
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1  very unhappy
Classification:
O-HL-u-sq-n-10-b
Page in publication:
61
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 1.3%,   2: 0.2%,   3: 0.5%,   4: 0.8%,   5: 4.6%,   6: 7.1%,   7: 21.2%,   8: 29.1%,   9: 16.1%,   10: 19.2%   (total 100.1%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.89 7.66
SD:
1.67 1.85