Lau & Kramer (2005): study DE 2002
Publication
- Author(s):
- Lau, C.; Kramer, L.
- Title:
- Die Relativitätstheorie des Glücks. Über das Leben von Lottomillionären. The Relativity Theory of Happiness; On the Life of Lotto Millionaires.
- Source:
- Book, 2005, 1 - 155
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, Germany, 2002
- Survey name
- DE-Allensbacher Survey
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 1715
- Non Response
- 2 %
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taking all together, how often do you feel happy?
5 very often
4 often
3 now and then
2 seldom
1 never - Classification:
- M-TH-u-sq-v-5-c
- Author's label:
- frequency of feeling happy
- Page in publication:
- 115
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0%, 2: 16%, 3: 48%, 4: 30%, 5: 4% (total 98%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.22 5.56
- SD:
- 0.76 1.91