VanBeuningen et al. (2014): study NL 2013
Publication
- Author(s):
- VanBeuningen, J.; Moonen, L.; VanderHouwen, K.
- Title:
- Measuring Well-Being. An Analysis of Different Response Scales.
- Source:
- Discussion Paper 2014/03,, Statistics Netherlands, 2014, The Hague, The Netherlands
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, Netherlands,2013
- Survey name
- NL-Mobility Panel 2013
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 970
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- 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 10
- Page in publication:
- 17
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0%, 2: 0%, 3: 1%, 4: 1%, 5: 2%, 6: 5%, 7: 25%, 8: 46%, 9: 18%, 10: 3% (total 101%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.74 7.49
- SD:
- 1.12 1.25
- 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-10
- Page in publication:
- 17
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0%, 2: 0%, 3: 0%, 4: 1%, 5: 2%, 6: 7%, 7: 27%, 8: 43%, 9: 17%, 10: 2% (total 99%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.70 7.44
- SD:
- 1.03 1.14