| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Brereton, F.J.; Clinch, J.P.; Ferreira, S. |
| Title | Happiness, Geography and the Environment. |
| Source | Ecological Economics, 2008, Vol. 65, 386 - 396 |
| DOI | DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.07.008 |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18+ aged, general public, Ireland, 2001 |
| Collect period | 3-5 |
| Survey name | IR-National Survey QOL |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Respondents N = | 1500 |
| Non Response | 33,3 |
| Assesment | Niet gebruiken Questionnaire: paper and pencil |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: Thinking about the good and bad things in your life, which of the answers best describes your life-as-a-whole? 1 as bad as can be 2 very bad 3 bad 4 alright 5 good 6 very good 7 as good as can be |
| Classification | O-GBB-u-sq-v-7-a |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 7 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 5.47 | |
| Standard deviation | 0.99 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| % | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 13.3 | 33.0 | 37.0 | 14.0 |