Moller (1985): study ZA 1984
Publication
- Author(s):
- Moller, V.
- Title:
- Quality of Life in Retirement: A Survey Evaluation of Return Migration tot Kwazulu.
- Source:
- Monograph No. 10, Center for Applied Social Sciences, 1985, University of Napal, Durban, South Africa
Investigation
- Public
- Ex-migrant workers, returned to rural Kwazulu, South Africa, 1984
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Non-probability purposive sample
- Respondents
- N = 253
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
open- and closed-ended questions. The fieldwork was carried out by three Zulu male research assistants. The fieldworkers spent up to several weeks in any of the research areas to make a detailed study of living conditions of the rural communities.
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
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Page in publication:
- 156
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 19.5%, 2: 44%, 3: 0%, 4: 35.5%, 5: 0% (total 99%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.52 4.67
- SD:
- 1.17 2.90
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taking all things together in your life, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are ....?
5 very happy
4 happy
3 neither happy nor unhappy
2 unhappy
1 very unhappy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-5-a
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 157
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 33.9%, 2: 21.5%, 3: 2%, 4: 35.5%, 5: 7% (total 99.9%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.60 4.03
- SD:
- 1.43 3.08