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Studies

Eurobarometer (2004b): study BE 1983

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, 1983
Survey name
EU-Eurobarometer 19
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 1038
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: 9%,   2: 57.8%,   3: 28.5%   (total 95.3%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.20 7.11
SD:
0.59 1.59