Rees et al. (2012): study GB 2008
Publication
- Author(s):
- Rees, G.; Bradshaw, J.; Goswami, H.; Keung, A.; Pople, L.
- Title:
- The Good Childhood Report 2012. A Review of Our Children's Well-Being.
- Source:
- Research Paper, The Children's Society, 2012, Leeds, UK
Investigation
- Public
- Children 8-15, United Kingdom, 2010
- Sample
- Non-probability purposive-quota sample
- Respondents
- N = 9485
- Non Response
- Assessment
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on five questions:
a: My life is going well
b: My life is just right
c: The things in my life are excellent
d: I have a good life
e: I have all I want in life
Rated:
0: strongly disagree
1
2
3
4.
5
6
7
8
9
10 strongly agree
Computation: (a+b+c+d+e)/5 - Classification:
- M-CO-u-mq-n-11-a
- Author's label:
- Overall Well-Being
- Remarks:
- original scale 0-20 transformed to 0-10 scale
0-20 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
% 0,4 0,1 0,1 0,1 0,5 1 1 1,6 2 3,3 5
freq 38 9 9 9 47 95 95 152 190 313 474
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
4,9 6,4 12,5 12,6 18,4 9,1 5 4,8 5,2 6
465 607 1186 1195 1745 863 474 455 493 569 - Page in publication:
- 10
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.4%, 2: 0.2%, 3: 0.6%, 4: 2%, 5: 3.6%, 6: 8.3%, 7: 11.3%, 8: 25.1%, 9: 27.5%, 10: 9.8%, 11: 11.2% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.27 7.27
- SD:
- 1.76 1.76