Inglehart et al. (2008): study GH 2005
Publication
- Author(s):
- Inglehart, R.; Foa, R.; Peterson, C.
- Title:
- Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness.
- Source:
- Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2008, Vol. 3, 264 - 285
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, Ghana, 2005
- Survey name
- INT-WorldValuesSurvey 5
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 1534
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taking all things together, would you say you are.....?
4 very happy
3 quite happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy. - Classification:
- O-HL-u-sq-v-4-a
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 4%, 2: 17.5%, 3: 28.4%, 4: 50.1% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.25 7.39
- SD:
- 0.88 2.42
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
1 dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a
- Page in publication:
- v22
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 6.3%, 2: 5.5%, 3: 7.6%, 4: 10.2%, 5: 7.4%, 6: 11.8%, 7: 14.4%, 8: 17.8%, 9: 7.8%, 10: 10.7% (total 99.5%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.12 5.69
- SD:
- 2.63 2.92