Bell & Blanchflower (2007): study GB 1975 /1
Publication
- Author(s):
- Bell, D.N.; Blanchflower, D.G.
- Title:
- The Scots may be Brave but They are neither Healthy nor Happy.
- Source:
- Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2007, Vol. 54, 166 - 194
Investigation
- Public
- 15+ aged, general public, United Kingdom, 1975-1986
- Survey name
- EU-Eurobarometer 7586
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage random
- Respondents
- N = 14341
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taking all things together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are...?
3 very happy
2 fairly happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 15%, 2: 58%, 3: 26% (total 99%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.11 6.87
- SD:
- 0.63 1.67