| Publication | |
| Author(s) | EPA/SPB, |
| Title | Life style preference survey |
| Source | Social Policy Bureau, Economic Planning Agency, Government Japan |
| URL | http://www5.cao.go.jp/seikatsu/senkoudo/senkoudo.html |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 16+ aged, general public, Japan, 1972 |
| Survey name | JP-LifestylePref1972 |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Weighting | N |
| Respondents N = | 3000 |
| Non Response | 0 |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: "Generally speaking, how (much) do you feel happy? What score do you give if we put ten for 'extremely happy, zero for extremely unhappy' and five for neither happy nor unhappy'?" 10 extremely happy 9 8 7 6 5 neither happy nor unhappy 4 3 2 1 0 extremely unhappy |
| Classification | M-FH-g-sq-n-11-a |
| DKNA % | 1.8 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 0 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 6.89 | 6.89 |
| Standard deviation | 1.65 | 1.65 |
| Scores in | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| % | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 24.8 | 12.4 | 20.1 | 23.7 | 7.3 | 6.9 |