Touburg & Veenhoven (2015): study ZZ World samples 2000
Publication
- Author(s):
- Touburg, G.; Veenhoven, R.
- Title:
- Mental Health Care and Average Happiness: Strong Relationship in Developed Nations.
- Source:
- Administration and Policy in Mental Health Services Research, 2015, Vol. 42, 394 - 404
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, 143 nations, 2000-2009
- Sample
- Selection from general population sample
- Respondents
- N = 3000000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Equivalent questions on life-satisfaction rated on various scales. The items differ slightly in wording and number of the response options.
Scores are transformed to a common range 0 - 10 by means of expert weighting of response options (Thurstone's method). - Classification:
- O-SLV-*-sq-nt-11-a
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 4
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.90 -
- SD:
- 1.30 -