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Table 3 Basic statistics

From: Surveying happiness in China: comparing measures of subjective well-being

National sample

Happiness xingfu

Very/Quite happy

Neither

Not happy

Very unhappy

 WVS 1995

23

61

14

2

 AB 2006

19

40

34

7

 SL 2007

33

47

16

4

 CGSS 2012

16

58

17

10

 BH 2016

16

69

13

2

Happy yukuai

Very happy

Rather happy

Not too happy

Not at all happy

 WVS 2007

21

55

19

4

 WVS 2012

16

69

13

1

Satisfied manyi

Very satisfied

Somewhat satisfied

Somewhat dissatisfied

Very dissatisfied

 WVS 1990

30

52

15

3

 WVS 1995

28

45

21

7

 WVS 2001

23

45

24

8

 WVS 2007

24

50

19

8

 WVS 2012

18

57

21

3

Happy kuaile

Strongly agree/Agree

Neutral

Disagree

Strongly disagree

 CHNS 2010

39

29

30

2

 BH 2016

18

72

10

0

Good life haoshenghuo

Very good

Good

Not so good

Very bad

 BH 2016

16

66

17

1

Enjoying life xiangshou shenghuo

Often

Sometimes

Rarely

Never

 AB 2006

23

52

22

4

Meaning yiyi

Very meaningful

Meaningful

Not so meaningful

Meaningless

 BH 2016

24

68

7

0

Urban-only sample

 Ladder of life shenghuo de jieti

highest 10, 9, 8

7, 6, 5

4, 3

lowest 2, 1, 0

 Pew 2002

13

62

16

9

 Pew 2005

14

61

17

8

 Pew 2007

17

66

13

4

 Pew 2010

13

73

14

1

  1. This table gives the percentage of responses to happiness questions by data source