| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Guo, D.; Shu, M. |
| Title | The Perception of Well-Being and Social Harmony in China. |
| Source | Inoguchi, T.; Ed.: "Human Beliefs and Values in East and Southeast Asia in Transition", Akashi Shoten, 2009, Japan, 35 - 54 |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 20-69 aged general public, China, 2006 |
| Collect period | July |
| Survey name | AsiaBarometer 2006 |
| Only the data of China are used here | |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Multi-stage-stratified random sampling and quota sampling The techniques of nationwide sampling are used The country is diveded into 3 regions according to the geographical location | |
| Respondents N = | 2000 |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question All things considered, would you say you are happy these days? 5 very happy 4 pretty happy 3 neither happy, not unhappy 2 not too happy 1 very unhappy - Don't know |
| Classification | O-HL-c-sq-v-5-m |
| Author's label | Subjective happiness |
| Page in publication | 41-42 |
| Remarks | reversed by the WDH team (in the questionnaire, 1= very happy and 5 = very unhappy) |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 5 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 3.69 | 6.39 |
| Standard deviation | 0.89 | 1.75 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| % | 1.7 | 4.7 | 35.7 | 39.0 | 18.9 |
| Author's label | Subject Code Finding | Subject description |
| Age | A04ab | Current age (in years) |
| Education | E01ab02 | Level of school-education |
| English proficiency | M14ab | Current modernity |
| English proficiency | L01ab01 | Number of languages spoken, also classified as above ↑ |
| Gender | G01aa | Sex (male vs female) |
| Household income | I01ab03 | Household income |
| Marital status | M02aa03 | Married vs divorced |
| Marital status | M02aa01 | Married vs never married, also classified as above ↑ |
| Marital status | M02aa02 | Married vs widowed, also classified as above ↑ |
| Occupation | E02ab | Current employment status |
| Occupation | E02ae03 | Self employed, also classified as above ↑ |
| Occupation | E02ab03 | Unemployed involuntary, also classified as above ↑ |
| Region | R01ab07 | Region in China |