| Publication | |
| Author(s) | DeJonge, T.; Wingen, M. |
| Title | Notes of Statistics Netherlands on Happiness and Satisfaction with Life Data. |
| Source | Statistics netherlands, personal communication, November 2011 |
| URL | https://worlddatabaseofhappiness-archive.eur.nl/hap_bib/freetexts/dejonge_t_2011a.pdf |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18+ aged, general public, Netherlands, 1983 |
| Survey name | NL-LSS 1983 |
| Sample | Probability multistage stratified area sample |
| Weighting | Y |
| Respondents N = | 3999 |
| Non Response | 0 |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| General remarks | Joint survey Statistics Netherlands/CBS and Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question To what extent do you consider yourself a happy person....? 5 very happy 4 happy 3 neither happy nor unhappy 2 not very happy 1 unhappy |
| Classification | O-HP-u-sq-v-5-a |
| Page in publication | 1 |
| Remarks | Joint survey Statistics Netherlands/CBS and Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP |
| DKNA % | 0.4 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 5 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 4.01 | 7.36 |
| Standard deviation | 0.68 | 1.34 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| % | 0.4 | 2.6 | 12.4 | 64.5 | 20.2 |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: How satisfied are you with the life you currently lead? 5 extraordinary satisfied 4 very satisfied 3 satisfied 2 fairly satisfied 1 not very satisfied |
| Classification | O-SLL-c-sq-v-5-d |
| Page in publication | 2 |
| DKNA % | 0.3 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 5 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 3.17 | 6.54 |
| Standard deviation | 0.92 | 1.56 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| % | 4.7 | 14.3 | 47.3 | 26.6 | 7.0 |