Kataria & Regner (2009): study IN 1995
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, India, 1995-2001
- Survey name
- INT-WorldValuesSurvey 1994-2008
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage random
- Respondents
- N = 4042
- Non Response
- 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: 6.3%, 2: 1.4%, 3: 13.9%, 4: 2.7%, 5: 26.8%, 6: 5.3%, 7: 15.6%, 8: 7.4%, 9: 5.3%, 10: 11.9% (total 96.6%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.82 5.36
- SD:
- 2.54 2.82
Correlational Findings
Tv watching