Wilkening & McGranahan (1978): study US Wisconsin 1974
Publication
- Author(s):
- Wilkening, E.A.; McGranahan, D.H.
- Title:
- Correlates of Subjective Well-Being in Northern Wisconsin.
- Source:
- Social Indicators Research, 1978, Vol. 5, 211 - 234
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, Wisconsin, USA, 1974
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 534
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Considering everything, how satisfied are you with your life as whole.....?
7 completely satisfied
6 satisfied
5 mostly satisfied
4 satisfied/dissatisfied
3 dissatisfied
2 very dissatisfied
1 completely dissatisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-u-sq-v-7-a
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.2%, 2: 0.6%, 3: 1.7%, 4: 15.3%, 5: 49.5%, 6: 25.1%, 7: 7.6% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.20 7.00
- SD:
- - -