Stanca (2012): study ZZ World samples 1980
Publication
- Author(s):
- Stanca, L.
- Title:
- Suffer the little children: Measuring the effects of parenthood on well-being worldwide
- Source:
- Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81 742-750
Investigation
- Public
- 15+ aged, general public, 54 nations, 1980 - 2008
- Survey name
- INT-WorldValuesSurv 1-5
- Sample
- Probability stratified sample
- Respondents
- N = 345000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
1 dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Remarks:
- The original answers on a scale 1 to 10 were multiplied by 10 in order to ease interpretation of regression results.
- Page in publication:
- 749
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.64 6.27
- SD:
- 2.46 2.73
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taking all things together, would you say you are.....?
4 very happy
3 quite happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy. - Classification:
- O-HL-u-sq-v-4-a
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 749f
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.03 -
- SD:
- 0.74 -
Correlational Findings
Unemployed
Never married
Never married (vs divorced)
Never married (vs separated)
Never married (vs cohabiting)