Rent & Rent (1978): study US SouthCarolina 1973

Publication

Author(s):

Rent, G.S.; Rent, C.S.

Title:

Low-Income Housing: Factors Related to Residential Satisfaction.

Source:

Environment and Behavior, 1978, Vol.10, 459 - 488

Investigation

Public

Low-income households, South Carolina, USA 197?

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Non-probability purposive sample

Respondents

N = 257

Non Response

50%

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
Interviewers were blacks

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:

Self report on single question

'general life satisfaction' (text not reported)
3  completely satisfied
2  pretty satisfied
1  not satisfied

Classification:

O-SL?-?-sq-v-3-b

Author's label:

General Life Satisfaction

Page in publication:

481

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 20%,   2: 0%,   3: 80%   (total 100%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10

Mean:

2.60 8.34

SD:

0.80 2.72

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Housing Unit Satisfaction Satisfaction with housing
Build environment Neighborhood Satisfaction Attitudes to local geographical conditions
Attitudes to livability of local environment