SASAS (2017a): study ZA 2015
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, 2015
- Survey name
- SA-SAS 2015
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 3115
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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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
- Error estimates:
- S.e.= 0.021
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 9.8%, 2: 23.3%, 3: 9.7%, 4: 47.4%, 5: 9.2% (total 99.4%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.23 6.21
- SD:
- 1.19 2.91
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
How happy are you?
5 very happy
4 happy
3 neither happy nor unhappy
2 unhappy
1 very unhappy
- don't know - Classification:
- O-HL-u-sq-v-5-d
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Error estimates:
- S.e.= 0.021
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 7.2%, 2: 12.9%, 3: 11.5%, 4: 48.7%, 5: 18% (total 98.3%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.58 6.14
- SD:
- 1.15 2.51