Muffels et al. (2012): study ZZ Europe 2008
Publication
- Author(s):
- Muffels, R.; Dingemans, E.; Skugar, D.
- Title:
- Money Does not Buy much Happiness, but what have Income Inequality, Modernization and Personal values got to do with It?
- Source:
- Tilburg University REFLECT Research Paper, 2012, No.1, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged general public, 47 countries, 2008
- Survey name
- EU-EVS
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 67216
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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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:
- Subjective wellebing (SWB)
- Page in publication:
- 7, 26
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.97 6.63
- SD:
- 2.32 2.58