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Studies

World Values Survey (2004): study CA British Columbia 1982

Publication

Author(s):
World Values Survey,
Title:
Aggregated Datafile European Values Survey 1999 and World Values Survey 2000. File name: WVSEVS_sb_v4.sav, 2004
Source:
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org

Investigation

Public
18+ aged, general public, British Columbia region, Canada, 1982
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurv 1-5
Sample
Selection from general population sample
Respondents
N = 430
Non Response
0
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
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
Remarks:
Canada: Only wave 1(1982), wave 2 (1990), wave 4(2000) and wave 5(2005) aggregated
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 0.4%,   2: 1.6%,   3: 1.1%,   4: 1.8%,   5: 7%,   6: 7.4%,   7: 14.5%,   8: 31.2%,   9: 18.7%,   10: 16.1%   (total 99.8%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.75 7.51
SD:
1.78 1.98