Lindsay (2010): study NZ 2008
Publication
- Author(s):
- Lindsay, S
- Title:
- Personal communication, June 2010
- Source:
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, New Zealand, 2008
- Survey name
- NZ-GSS1
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 8721
- Non Response
- 17
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taken all things together, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days? On the whole, would you say you are.....?
5 very satisfied
4 satisfied
3 neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
2 dissatisfied
1 very dissatisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-v-5-g
- Remarks:
- Question on life-satisfaction was the first subjective item in the questionnaire, posed after questions on socio-demographics but before questions on satisfaction with life domains
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1.34%, 2: 6.23%, 3: 7.84%, 4: 53.53%, 5: 30.94% (total 99.88%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 4.07 8.03
- SD:
- 0.87 1.88