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World Values Survey (2004): study CN Beijing 1990

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, Beijing, China, 1990-2005
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurv 1-5
Sample
Selection from general population sample
Respondents
N = 190
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:
Chiina: Only  wave 2 (1990), wave 3(1995), wave 4(2001) and wave 5(2005) aggregated
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 0.5%,   2: 1%,   3: 2.6%,   4: 2.6%,   5: 8.8%,   6: 16.5%,   7: 12.4%,   8: 24.7%,   9: 12.9%,   10: 16%   (total 98%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.39 7.10
SD:
1.93 2.14