Study VanBeuningen et al. (2014): study NL 2012 /2

Public

18+ aged, general public, Netherlands, 2012

Survey name

NL-SocialCohesionSurvey2012

Sample

Respondents

N = 7641

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Response scale: happiness

Our Classification

Remarks

Samples A and B obtained by split-half and hence otherwise identical

Operationalization

Answers to same question on happiness:
To what extend do you consider yourself a happy person?

Anwers rated in 2 sub-samples on different response scales:

Sample A: 5-step verbal response scale
    -  very happy
    -  happy
    -  neither happy nor unhappy
    -  not that happy
    -  unhappy

Sample B: 11 step numerical scale
    10  very happy
     :
    0   very unhappy

Observed Relation with Happiness