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World Values Survey (2004): study SV 1999

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, El Salvador, 1999
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 3
Sample
Probability simple random sample
Respondents
N = 1254
Non Response
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:
No information about sampling or non-respondents were given: There was no methodological questionaire at all given
Page in publication:
a170
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 4.01%,   2: 1.4%,   3: 2.2%,   4: 3%,   5: 9.3%,   6: 8.9%,   7: 13%,   8: 16.7%,   9: 11.5%,   10: 28.1%   (total 98.11%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.50 7.22
SD:
2.43 2.70
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
Remarks:
Original scale has been reversed for better interpretation. No methodological report: so no information about sampling or non-response
Page in publication:
a008
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 1.1%,   2: 6.7%,   3: 36.4%,   4: 55.6%   (total 99.8%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.47 8.07
SD:
0.67 1.72