Wassell (2015): study ZZ 1981
Publication
- Author(s):
- Wassell, E.D.
- Title:
- Do Maternity Leave Variables Influence Happiness or Life-Satisfaction?
- Source:
- International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, 2015, Vol. 3, 157 - 166
Investigation
- Public
- 30-60 aged, 4 western nations, 1981-2008, born before or after extension of maternity leave in nation
- Survey name
- INT-World Values Survey, pooled waves
- Sample
- Selection from general population sample
- Respondents
- N = 5857
- 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?
1 dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Page in publication:
- 164
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.35 7.06
- SD:
- 1.76 1.96
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taking all things together, would you say you are.....?
4 very happy
3 quite happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy. - Classification:
- O-HL-u-sq-v-4-a
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 164
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.17 -
- SD:
- 0.67 -