SASAS (2017a): study ZA 2013
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, 2013
- Survey name
- SA-SAS 2013
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 2876
- 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?
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
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 11.7%, 2: 26.9%, 3: 12.4%, 4: 40%, 5: 8.6% (total 99.6%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.07 5.78
- SD:
- 1.22 2.95
- Full text:
-
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.= 0.02
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 6.4%, 2: 13%, 3: 11.8%, 4: 47.3%, 5: 18.2% (total 96.7%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.60 6.17
- SD:
- 1.13 2.49