SASAS (2017a): study ZA 2008
Publication
- Author(s):
- SASAS,
- Title:
- South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) website
- Source:
- Human Sciences Research Council
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, South Africa, 2008
- Survey name
- SA-SAS 2008_2
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 3292
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
If you were to consider your life in general these days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole...?
4 very happy
3 fairly happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-4-f
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Error estimates:
- S.e.= 0.016
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 9.9%, 2: 18.3%, 3: 43.9%, 4: 27.6% (total 99.7%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.89 6.22
- SD:
- 0.92 2.56
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question
All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?
5 very satisfied
4 satisfied
3 neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
2 not satisfied
1 not satisfied at all - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-v-5-fd
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Remarks:
- In the 1st wave the happiness and l.s. questions are at the beginning of the questionnaire, in the 2nd wave they are at the end of the questionnaire. This could explain the difference in means.
- Error estimates:
- S.e.=0.02
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 9.3%, 2: 17.5%, 3: 16.8%, 4: 47.8%, 5: 7.7% (total 99.1%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.27 6.30
- SD:
- 1.13 2.78