VanBeuningen et al. (2014): study NL 2012 /1
Publication
- Author(s):
- VanBeuningen, J.; Moonen, L.; VanderHouwen, K.
- Title:
- Measuring Well-Being. An Analysis of Different Response Scales.
- Source:
- Discussion Paper 2014/03,, Statistics Netherlands, 2014, The Hague, The Netherlands
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public Netherlands, 2012
- Survey name
- EU-EVS1981-84
- Sample
- Probability systematic sample
- Respondents
- N = 5556
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
To what extent do you consider yourself as a happy person?
1 completely unhappy
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 completely happy - Classification:
- O-HP-u-sq-n-10-b
- Author's label:
- Happiness 1-10
- Page in publication:
- 13
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0%, 2: 0%, 3: 0%, 4: 1%, 5: 3%, 6: 7%, 7: 23%, 8: 37%, 9: 22%, 10: 5% (total 98%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.82 7.57
- SD:
- 1.16 1.29
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
To what extent do you consider yourself to be a happy person?
0 completely unhappy
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 completely happy - Classification:
- O-HP-u-sq-n-11-ca
- Author's label:
- Happiness 0-10
- Page in publication:
- 13
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0%, 2: 0%, 3: 0%, 4: 0%, 5: 1%, 6: 3%, 7: 7%, 8: 23%, 9: 37%, 10: 22%, 11: 5% (total 98%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.69 7.69
- SD:
- 1.39 1.39
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
To what extent do you consider yourself to be a happy person?
0 completely unhappy
1
2
3
4
5 neither unhappy, nor happy
6
7
8
9
10 completely happy - Classification:
- O-HP-u-sq-n-11-cb
- Author's label:
- Happiness 0-5-10
- Page in publication:
- 13