Keng & Wu (2014): study TW 1989
Publication
- Author(s):
- Keng, S. H.; Wu, S.
- Title:
- Living Happily Ever After? The Effect of Taiwan's National Health Insurance on the Happiness of the Elderly.
- Source:
- Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, Vol. 15, 583 - 808
Investigation
- Public
- Elderly, Taiwan, folowed 14 years 1989-2003, before and after change health insurance law in 1995
- Sample
- Probability systematic sample
- Respondents
- N = 4049
- Non Response
- <10%
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
Panel study in 5 waves: T1: 1989, T2: 1993,T3: 1996, T4: 1999 and T5: 2003.
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single questions:
"Please tell me how often you have felt this way during the past week...?"
I was happy
0 rarely or none of the time
1 some or a little of the time
2 occasionally or a moderate amount of time
3 most of the time
Item in CES-D (Center for Epidemiologic Studies of Depression) Scale - Classification:
- M-TH-cw-sq-v-4-a
- Author's label:
- CES-D HAPPY
- Remarks:
- As assessed at T1 (1989)
- Page in publication:
- 787,794
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 1.43 -
- SD:
- 1.25 -
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Please tell me how often you have felt this way during the past week...?
I enjoyed life...
0 rarely or none of the time
1 some or a little of the time
2 occasionally or a moderate amount of time
3 most of the time
Item in CES-D (Center for Epidemiologic Studies of Depression) Scale. Score reversed. - Classification:
- M-TH-cw-sq-v-4-b
- Author's label:
- CES-D ENJLIFE
- Remarks:
- As assessed at T1 (1989)
- Page in publication:
- 787,794
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 1.13 -
- SD:
- 1.22 -