SASAS (2017a): study ZA 2007
Publication
- Author(s):
- SASAS,
- Title:
- South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) website
- Source:
- Human Sciences Research Council
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, South Africa, 2007
- Survey name
- SA-SAS 2007
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 3164
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
How happy are you?
5 very happy
4 happy
3 neither happy nor unhappy
2 unhappy
1 very unhappy
- don't know - Classification:
- O-HL-u-sq-v-5-d
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Error estimates:
- S.e.= 0.019
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 6%, 2: 15.6%, 3: 17.3%, 4: 49%, 5: 11.9% (total 99.8%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.45 5.86
- SD:
- 1.08 2.36
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question
All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?
5 very satisfied
4 satisfied
3 neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
2 not satisfied
1 not satisfied at all - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-v-5-fd
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Error estimates:
- S.e.= 0.019
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 6.9%, 2: 20.7%, 3: 16.7%, 4: 47.6%, 5: 7.6% (total 99.5%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.28 6.31
- SD:
- 1.09 2.72