VanBeuningen & Dewitt (2016): study NL 2015
Publication
- Author(s):
- VanBeuningen, J.; Dewitt, S.
- Title:
- Welzijn van Jongeren: Geluk en Tevredenheid met het Leven onder Jongeren van 12 tot 25 Jaar. (Well-Being among Youngsters: Happiness and Satisfaction with Life among youngsters aged 12 - 25)
- Source:
- CBS Bevolkingstrends, 2016, The Hague, Netherlands
Investigation
- Public
- 12-25 aged, general public, Netherlands, 2015.
- Survey name
- NL-Belevingen 2015
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 4042
- Non Response
- 38%
- Assessment
-
Multiple assesment methods
first approached by web, non responders approached by telephone, if still no response, approached at home.
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question
'Taken all together, how satisfied are you with the life you currently lead? Please indicate on this scale. 10 means that you are completely satisfied and 1 means that you are completely dissatisfied.'
10 completely satisfied
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1 completely dissatisfied - Classification:
- O-SLL-c-sq-n-10-a
- Author's label:
- life satisfaction
- Remarks:
- weighted scores
- Page in publication:
- 6, 22
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.22%, 2: 0.35%, 3: 0.6%, 4: 1.24%, 5: 1.9%, 6: 5.47%, 7: 20.48%, 8: 40.38%, 9: 17.64%, 10: 11.7% (total 99.98%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.92 7.69
- SD:
- 1.35 1.50
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
To what extent do you consider yourself as a happy person?
1 completely unhappy
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 completely happy - Classification:
- O-HP-u-sq-n-10-b
- Author's label:
- happiness
- Remarks:
- weighted scores
- Page in publication:
- 6, 22
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.22%, 2: 0.35%, 3: 0.47%, 4: 1.44%, 5: 2.19%, 6: 5.57%, 7: 20.93%, 8: 37.03%, 9: 19.31%, 10: 11.97% (total 99.48%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.93 7.70
- SD:
- 1.37 1.53