SASAS (2017a): study ZA 2012
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, 2012
- Survey name
- SA-SAS2012_3
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 2547
- 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, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole?
7 completely happy
6 very happy
5 fairly happy
4 neither happy nor unhappy
3 fairly unhappy
2 very unhappy
1 completely unhappy
- can't choose
- no answer - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-v-7-a
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 3.2%, 2: 8.1%, 3: 8.7%, 4: 7.9%, 5: 24.8%, 6: 33.3%, 7: 13.1% (total 99.1%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 4.97 6.82
- SD:
- 1.60 3.04