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World Values Survey (2004): study IL 2001

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, Israel, 2001
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 4
Sample
Probability multistage stratified area sample
Respondents
N = 1199
Non Response
66
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
Remarks:
Excluded were respondents from communities less than 2000 inhabitants
Kish-grid method was used to select respondents. Startification factors were: region and social-economic characteristics
Page in publication:
a170
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 2.3%,   2: 1.8%,   3: 3.4%,   4: 4.3%,   5: 12.5%,   6: 10.1%,   7: 17.3%,   8: 22.4%,   9: 11.8%,   10: 13.5%   (total 99.4%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.02 6.69
SD:
2.18 2.42
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
Remarks:
Excluded were respondents from communities less than 2000 inhabitants
Kish-grid method was used to select respondents. Startification factors were: region and social-economic characteristics
Page in publication:
a008
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 4.3%,   2: 16.9%,   3: 50.2%,   4: 27.2%   (total 98.6%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.02 6.91
SD:
0.79 2.22