Study

Publication
Author(s)	Weston, R.; Gray, M.; Qu, L.; Stanton, D.
Title	The Impact of Long Working Hours on Employed Fathers and Their Families.
Source	Paper Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2003, Melbourne, Australia
URL	https://worlddatabaseofhappiness-archive.eur.nl/hap_bib/freetexts/weston_r_2003.pdf
Investigation
Public	Employed fathers, Australia, 2001
	Living with partner and at least one child under age 15 Working 35 hours or more per week
Survey name	Not available
	wave 1 HILDA survey (Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia)
Sample	Probability multi-stage cluster sample
	Fathers selected from probability sample of households
Respondents N =	1479
	N full sample of households: 14.000
Non Response	?
Assesment	Interview: face-to-face
	Face-to-face interviews and self completion questionaires
Happiness measure(s) used

Full text	Selfreport on single question: Now here are some questions concerning how satisfied - or dissatisfied - you are with various things about your life, such as your standard of living, your education etc. To indicate this, would you use this card. If you are extremely SATISFIED with something you would call of the highest number, ten. If you are extremely DISSATISFIED you would mention the lowest number, zero. If you are neither extremely satisfied nor extremely dissatisfied, you would mention some number in between zero and ten - the higher the number, the more satisfied, the lower the number the less satisfied. How satisfied - or dissatisfied - are you with the following? Just read off the number that comes closest to how you feel. We have talked about various parts of your life. Now taking everything into account, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life as a whole? 0 dissatisfied 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 satisfied
Classification	O-SLW-u-sq-n-11-e
Author's label	Overall Life Satisfaction
Page in publication	8
Finding used in nation ranks	Yes

Author's label		Our subject description
Satisfaction with work hours	show	Satisfaction with work conditions
work hours	show	Load of work