World Values Survey (2004): study DE 1999
Publication
- Author(s):
- World Values Survey,
- Title:
- Aggregated Datafile European Values Survey 1999 and World Values Survey 2000. File name: WVSEVS_sb_v4.sav, 2004
- Source:
- http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org
Investigation
- Public:
- 18+ aged, general public, Germany, 1999
- Survey name:
- WorldValuesSurvey 4
- Sample:
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents:
- N = 2036
- Non Response:
- 58
- Assessment:
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Selfreport on single question:
Taken all together, how would you say things are these days? Would say that you are ...
4 very happy
3 pretty happy
2 not too happy
1 not happy at all - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-4-h
- Remarks:
- Question in German refers to current happiness (code c), while the time frame in the standard WVS item is unspecified (code u).
Original scale has been reversed for better interpretation. In weighted sample (Halman, 2001) M: 3,03; SD:0,62 - Page in publication:
- a008
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1.6%, 2: 12.9%, 3: 64.6%, 4: 19.2% (total 98.3%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.03 6.77
- SD:
- 0.63 2.08
- Full text:
-
Selfreport 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
- Page in publication:
- a170
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.6%, 2: 0.5%, 3: 2.5%, 4: 3.6%, 5: 4.8%, 6: 9.2%, 7: 16.8%, 8: 28.3%, 9: 20.9%, 10: 12% (total 99.2%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.61 7.34
- SD:
- 1.79 1.99