Haugen & Blekesaune (2005): study NO 1995

Publication

Author(s):

Haugen, M.S.; Blekesaune, A.

Title:

Farm and Off-farm Work and Life Satisfaction among Norwegian Farm Women.

Source:

Sociologia Ruralis, 2005, Vol. 45, 71 - 83

Investigation

Public

Farm women, Norway, 1995

Sample

Probability sample (unspecified)

Respondents

N = 928

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:

Self report on single question:

All things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life these days? Please tell me on a scale of 1 to 10, where one means very dissatisfied and 10 means very satisfied
10 very satisfied
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1  very dissatisfied

Classification:

O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-b

Author's label:

Subjective Well-being

Page in publication:

74,81

Observed distribution

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10

Mean:

8.00 -

SD:

1.60 -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Labour categories Full-time home maker
Being wife of a farmer
Time spend to farming
Current occupation Health problems Current functional health Summed effect Summed socio-demographic + health