| 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 | HTTP://worlddatabaseofhappiness.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 |
| On original range 0 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 7.94 | |
| Standard deviation | 0.18 |
| Author's label | Subject Code Finding | Subject description |
| Satisfaction with work hours | W05ad02e | Satisfaction with work conditions |
| work hours | W04ab07 | Load of work |