Moller (2006a): study ZA 1988
Publication
- Author(s):
- Moller, V.
- Title:
- Personal communication
- Source:
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, South Africa, 1988
- Survey name
- SA-QOL 1988
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 3772
- Non Response
- 0
- 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
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 6.8%, 2: 17%, 3: 12.4%, 4: 50%, 5: 13.5% (total 99.7%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.47 6.77
- SD:
- 1.13 2.65
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taking all together, would you say you are:
5 very happy
4 fairly happy
3 neither happy not unhappy
2 fairly unhappy
1 very unhappy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-5-g
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 8.2%, 2: 9.2%, 3: 11.8%, 4: 50%, 5: 20.1% (total 99.3%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.65 6.13
- SD:
- 1.15 2.33