| Publication | |
| Author(s) | VanBeuningen, J.; Moonen, L.; VanderHouwen, K. |
| Title | Measuring Well-Being. An Analysis of Different Response Scales. |
| Source | Discussion Paper 2014/03,, Statistics Netherlands, 2014, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18+ aged, general public Netherlands, 2012 |
| Collect period | October |
| Survey name | EU-EVS1981-84 |
| Liss panel; (Longitudinal Internet Studies for Social Sciences) | |
| Sample | Probability systematic sample |
| Liss panel consists of 5000 households, comprising 8000 individuals. | |
| Respondents N = | 5556 |
| 1821 respondents: version with 10-point scale; 1891 respondents: version with 11-point scale end points labelled; 1844 respondents: version with 11-point scale both endpoints and midpoint labelled. | |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Questionnaire: web |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: To what extent do you consider yourself as a happy person? 1 completely unhappy 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 completely happy |
| Classification | O-HP-u-sq-n-10-b |
| Author's label | Happiness 1-10 |
| Page in publication | 13 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 7.82 | 7.57 |
| Standard deviation | 1.16 | 1.29 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| % | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 7.0 | 23.0 | 37.0 | 22.0 | 5.0 |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: To what extent do you consider yourself to be a happy person? 0 completely unhappy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 completely happy |
| Classification | O-HP-u-sq-n-11-ca |
| Author's label | Happiness 0-10 |
| Page in publication | 13 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 0 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 7.69 | 7.69 |
| Standard deviation | 1.39 | 1.39 |
| Scores in | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| % | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 7.0 | 23.0 | 37.0 | 22.0 | 5.0 |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: To what extent do you consider yourself to be a happy person? 0 completely unhappy 1 2 3 4 5 neither unhappy, nor happy 6 7 8 9 10 completely happy |
| Classification | O-HP-u-sq-n-11-cb |
| Author's label | Happiness 0-5-10 |
| Page in publication | 13 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| Scores in | 0 |
| % |