Bjorner et al. (1998): study DK 1994
Publication
- Author(s):
- Bjorner, J.B.; Damsgaard, M.T.; Watt, T.
- Title:
- Tests of Data Quality, Scaling Assumptions, and Reliability of the Danish SF-36.
- Source:
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 1998, Vol. 51, 1001 - 1011
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, Denmark, 1994
- Survey name
- IQOLA Project
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 5983
- Non Response
- 0
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
During the past 4 weeks….. Have you been a happy person?
6 all of the time
5 most of the time
4 a good bit of the time
3 some of the time
2 a little of the time
1 none of the time
Item MH5 in SF-36 (Medical Outcome Study 36 item Short Form) - Classification:
- M-TH-cm-sq-v-6-a
- Page in publication:
- table 1
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 3.4%, 2: 5.1%, 3: 10.3%, 4: 13.2%, 5: 47.5%, 6: 16.7% (total 96.2%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 6 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 4.52 -
- SD:
- 1.25 -