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Studies

Eurobarometer (2004b): study BE 1982

Publication

Author(s):
Eurobarometer,
Title:
The Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend file 1970-2002
Source:
European Commission, 2004, Brussels, Belgium

Investigation

Public
15+ aged, general public, Belgium, 1982
Survey name
EU-Eurobarometer 18
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 1020
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

Taking all things together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are...?
3   really happy
2   fairly happy
1   not too happy
Classification:
O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ai
Remarks:
Response option 'really happy'  was used in Belgium, France and The Netherlands, while in the other Eurobarometer surveys that option was phrased as 'very happy'
Page in publication:
A17
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 12.3%,   2: 58%,   3: 25.4%   (total 95.7%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.14 6.93
SD:
0.61 1.62