Kataria & Regner (2009): study DE 1997
Publication
- Author(s):
- Kataria, M.; Regner, T.
- Title:
- A Note on the Relationship between Television Viewing and individual Happiness.
- Source:
- Jena Economic Research Papers 2009-098, 2009, Jena Germany
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ general public, Germany, 1997
- Survey name
- INT-WorldValuesSurvey 3
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage random
- Respondents
- N = 2026
- Non Response
- 49,5%
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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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
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1.3%, 2: 0.9%, 3: 3.7%, 4: 5.5%, 5: 11.8%, 6: 12.3%, 7: 17.8%, 8: 28.1%, 9: 11.2%, 10: 7.3% (total 99.9%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.93 6.59
- SD:
- 1.94 2.15
Correlational Findings
Tv watching