BBC (2006): study GB 2005
Publication
- Author(s):
- BBC,
- Title:
- The Happiness Formula: Opinion Poll.
- Source:
- GfK-NOP poll 421059, commissioned by BBC, 2006, London, UK
Investigation
- Public
- 15+ aged, general public, United Kingdom, 2005
- Survey name
- UK-BBC Happiness Survey
- Sample
- Probability sample (unspecified)
- Respondents
- N = 1001
- Non Response
- not reported
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
If you were to consider your life in general, how happy or unhappy would you say you are on the whole?
4 very happy
3 fairly happy
2 fairly unhappy
1 very unhappy - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-v-4-g
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 3.3%, 2: 4.9%, 3: 56.1%, 4: 35.7% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.24 7.15
- SD:
- 0.69 2.00
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
1 not satisfied at all
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 completely satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-ab
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Page in publication:
- 10
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1.1%, 2: 0.4%, 3: 1.8%, 4: 3.2%, 5: 8.4%, 6: 8.9%, 7: 21.3%, 8: 33.4%, 9: 11.3%, 10: 9.8% (total 99.6%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.34 7.05
- SD:
- 1.75 1.94