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Studies

World Values Survey (2000): study TR 1996

Publication

Author(s):
World Values Survey,
Title:
Aggregated data file waves 1+2+3
Source:
www.worldvaluessurvey.org

Investigation

Public
16+ aged, general public, Turkey, 1996
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 3
Sample
Probability multistage stratified area sample
Respondents
N = 1507
Non Response
0
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
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
Remarks:
December 1996 - Januari 1997
The question in Turkish is about happiness 'nowadays' and differs from the standard happiness item in which no time frame is specified
Page in publication:
v10
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 2.3%,   2: 7.8%,   3: 40.7%,   4: 49.1%   (total 99.9%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.37 7.53
SD:
0.73 2.02