Joshi (1996): study GB 1991
Publication
- Author(s):
- Joshi, H.
- Title:
- Combining Employment and Child Rearing: The Story of British Women's Lives.
- Source:
- Offer, A.;Ed.: "In Pursuit of the Quality of Life", Oxford University Press, 1996, UK, 88 - 118
Investigation
- Public
- 33 year aged women and husbands, Great Britain,1991
- Sample
- Non-probability purposive sample
- Respondents
- N = 10622
- Non Response
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
With questionnaire
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Here is a scale from 0 to 10. On it, "0" means that you are completely dissatisfied and "10 " means that you are completely satisfied. Please ring ONE number to show just how dissatisfied or satisfied you are about the way your life has turned out so far
0 completely dissatisfied
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 completely satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLC-h-sq-n-11-bb
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Remarks:
- Based on Women N = 5461, M = 7,5, SD = 1,7. Men N = 5156 M = 7,3 SD = 1,6
- Page in publication:
- 108
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.40 -
- SD:
- 0.10 -