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World Values Survey (2004): study CN 2001

Publication

Author(s):
World Values Survey,
Title:
Aggregated Datafile European Values Survey 1999 and World Values Survey 2000. File name: WVSEVS_sb_v4.sav, 2004
Source:
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org

Investigation

Public
18+ aged, general public, China, 2001
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 4
Sample
Probability simple random sample
Respondents
N = 1000
Non Response
0
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
1   dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10  satisfied
Classification:
O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a
Remarks:
No information about sampling or non-response was given: There was no methodological report
Page in publication:
a170
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 3.4%,   2: 4.9%,   3: 5.9%,   4: 4.5%,   5: 13.4%,   6: 14.1%,   7: 13.1%,   8: 17.4%,   9: 8.3%,   10: 14.1%   (total 99.1%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
6.53 6.14
SD:
2.47 2.74
Full text:
Self report on single question:

Taking all things together, would you say you are.....?
4  very happy
3  quite happy
2  not very happy
1  not at all happy.
Classification:
O-HL-u-sq-v-4-a
Remarks:
No  methodological report, hence no detail about sampling or non-reponse.
Page in publication:
a008
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 2.8%,   2: 19.1%,   3: 66.3%,   4: 11.5%   (total 99.7%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.87 6.60
SD:
0.63 1.89