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Studies

Kataria & Regner (2009): study GE 1996

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, Georgia, 1996
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 3
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 2008
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 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: 17.8%,   2: 6.1%,   3: 10.4%,   4: 11%,   5: 19.6%,   6: 10%,   7: 7.8%,   8: 8.2%,   9: 4%,   10: 4.6%   (total 99.5%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
4.68 4.09
SD:
2.61 2.90

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding TV watching