Happiness, Satisfaction and Social Wellbeing
 

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Part A: Demographic Information

1. Gender                                                                                Male    Female

2. Marital Status                                                                    Never Married  Now Married  Widowed  Divorced  Separated

3. Age                                                                                        . 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+

4. Education Level                                                                . Primary or below Secondary Above Secondary but below College College or above

5. What is your monthly personal income (approximately)      . Below HK$3000 (US$385) HK$3000-3999 (US$385-US$512) HK$4000-4999 (US$513-US$640) HK$5000-5999 (US$641-US$768) HK$6000-6999 (US$769-US$896) HK$7000-7999 (US$897-US$1024) HK$8000-8999 (US$1025-US$1153) HK$9000-9999 (US$1154-US$1281) HK$10000-14999 (US$1282-US$1921) HK$15000-19999 (US$1922-US$2562) HK$20000-29999 (US$2563-US$3843) HK$30000 or above (US$3844)

6. What is your monthly household income (approximately)    . Below HK$3000 (US$385) HK$3000-3999 (US$385-US$512) HK$4000-4999 (US$513-US$640) HK$5000-5999 (US$641-US$768) HK$6000-6999 (US$769-US$896) HK$7000-7999 (US$897-US$1024) HK$8000-8999 (US$1025-US$1153) HK$9000-9999 (US$1154-US$1281) HK$10000-14999 (US$1282-US$1921) HK$15000-19999 (US$1922-US$2562) HK$20000-29999 (US$2563-US$3843) HK$30000 or above (US$3844)

7. Job Nature                                                                   . Accountant Actor Air Conditionning Repair Architect Artist Athlete Banker Bookkeeper Bus driver Business executive Certified Public Accountant Charity foundation Cleaner (custodial) Cook/Chef Counsellor Doctor Engineer Entertainer Finance Finanical Planner Firefighter Government Employee Homemaker (stay-at-home husband or wife) Hotel clerk Journalist Lawyer Lifeguard Museum curator Musician Nurse Police officer Priest/Minister/Clergy Primary school teacher Real estate broker/agent Retired Sales clerk Sanitation Scientist Secondary school teacher Secretary Skilled labourer Small business owner Social worker Stockbrocker Student with part-time job Student without part-time job Taxi driver Unemployed University professor Waiter

8. Country of Residence                                              . Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Anguilla Antarctica Antigua And Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo Congo, the Dem. Rep. Cook Islands Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador England Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Espana Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Great Britain Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea, Republic of Korea (South) Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Ireland Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Pitcairn Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Russia Russian Federation Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Samoa (Independent) San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Scotland Senegal Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka St. Helena Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Viet Nam Virgin Islands (British) Virgin Islands (U.S.) Wales Wallis and Futuna Islands Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

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Part B: Happiness and Satisfaction

1.1  How many hours do you work per week on average?   
  . fewer than 35 35-45 46-55 56 or more

1.2  How many hours do you spend with your family per week on average?        
  . fewer than 2 2-5 6-10 11-15 16 or more

1.3  Taking last night’s number as an example, how many hours do you sleep per night on average?         
  . fewer than 4 4-5 6-7 8-9 9 or more

1.4  With reference to your country’s standard of living, how would you rate your wealth status?   
  . abject poor poor lower middle class middle class upper middle class wealthy extremely wealthy

2  Are you confident that you are protected from violence and crime in your neighborhood?
  . Certainly not confident Maybe not confident Maybe confident Certainly confident

3  If you were seriously ill at home, is there a friend, neighbor or family member you could count on to take care of you?
  . Certainly no one Maybe no one Maybe someone Certainly someone

4.1  Do you see yourself in a positive light?          
  . Certainly not Maybe not Maybe Certainly

4.2  Do others share the same impression of you that you reported in question 4.1?
  . Certainly not Maybe not Maybe Certainly

5.1  If you could live your life over, would you change anything?       
  . Certainly nothing Maybe nothing Maybe something Certainly something

5.2  Are you on track to realizing your full inner potential?                
  . Certainly not Maybe not Maybe Certainly

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Part C: Social Wellbeing

In answering the following 4 questions, please assume that you do not need to pay any tax.

1.  How much in terms of a percentage of your income, would you be willing to pay to the government to improve health care services?        
  . 0% - 2% 3% - 4% 5% - 6% 7% - 8% 9% - 10% More than 10%

2.  How much in terms of a percentage of your income, would you be willing to pay to the government to provide better education?       
  . 0% - 2% 3% - 4% 5% - 6% 7% - 8% 9% - 10% More than 10%

3.  How much in terms of a percentage of your income, would you be willing to pay to the government to reduce the disparity between the rich and the poor?       
  . 0% - 2% 3% - 4% 5% - 6% 7% - 8% 9% - 10% More than 10%

4.  How much in terms of a percentage of your income, would you be willing to pay to the government to correct the pollution problem?       
  . 0% - 2% 3% - 4% 5% - 6% 7% - 8% 9% - 10% More than 10%

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Dr. Mark Greene and Dr. Thomas Yuen Wai Kee

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Hong Kong Shue Yan University

 

We thank the following researchers whose work was drawn upon to form some of the questions of this survey.

    The Personal Security Index 2003 (by Spyridoula Tsoukalas and Andrew MacKenzie, November 2003), Canadian Council on Social Development

    Pavot, W., & Diener, E. (1993) Review of the satisfaction with life scale. Psychological Assessment, 5, 2, 164-172

    Ed Diener, Robert A. Emmons, Randy J. Larsen and Sharon Griffin as noted in the 1985 article in the Journal of Personality Assessment.