Statistics New Zealand (2014): study NZ 2004
Publication
- Author(s):
- Statistics New Zealand,
- Title:
- New Zealands General Social Survey
- Source:
- Statistics New Zealand
Investigation
- Public
- 15+ aged, general public, New Zealand, 2004
- Survey name
- NZ-SWS 2004
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 1125
- Non Response
- 57
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question
On a scale of one to five, where one is very happy and five is very unhappy, in general how happy would you say you are?
5 very happy
4 happy
3 neither happy nor unhappy
2 unhappy
1 very unhappy
- don't know
- no answer
Numerical scale reversed - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-v-5-ca
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1.24%, 2: 3.82%, 3: 15.44%, 4: 45.52%, 5: 33.81% (total 99.83%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 4.07 7.24
- SD:
- 0.87 1.87
- Full text:
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Self report on single question
Now taking everything into account, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life these days?
5 very satisfied
4 satisfied
3 neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
2 dissatisfied
1 very dissatisfied
- don't know
- no answers
Numerical scale reversed - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-v-5-na
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.35%, 2: 4.17%, 3: 14.73%, 4: 53.5%, 5: 27.06% (total 99.81%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 4.03 7.94
- SD:
- 0.79 1.77