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Czapinski (2015): study PL 2009

Publication

Author(s):
Czapinski, J.
Title:
Individual quality of life and lifestyle
Source:
Chapter 5 in Czapinski, J. & Panek, T. Social Diagnosis 2015. Contemporary Economics, Quarterly of university of finance and management in Warsaw Poland, vol9, issue 4

Investigation

Public
16+ aged, general public, Poland, 2009
Survey name
PL-Social Diagnisis 2009
Sample
Probability multistage stratified area sample
Respondents
N = 26133
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

How do you feel about your life as a whole.....?
7  delighted
6  pleased
5  mostly satisfied
4  mixed
3  mostly dissatisfied
2  unhappy
1  terrible

Name: Andrews & Withey's `Delighted-Terrible Scale'  (original version)
Classification:
O-DT-u-sq-v-7-a
Page in publication:
193
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 0.5%,   2: 1%,   3: 5.3%,   4: 16.3%,   5: 33.9%,   6: 38.8%,   7: 4.2%   (total 100%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
Mean:
5.15 -
SD:
1.04 -
Full text:
Self report on single question:

Taking al things together, how would you say things are these days - would you say you are..?
4  very happy
3  pretty happy
2  not too happy
1  unhappy
Classification:
O-HL-c-sq-v-4-o