Title: Life Satisfaction

Source: Levy (1976)

Description: Intercorrelations of items asking about satisfaction
with respect to different aspects of one’s life, based on a representative
survey in the USA.

The items can be classified by the mapping sentence:

The extent of satisfaction of respondent x with the A his/her activities in
area of life B. A and B are defined as:

Values of A

1	state of
2	resources for

Values of B

1	education
2	economy
3	residence
4	spare time
5	family
6	health
7	work
8	general

The items and their respective values of A and B are as follows.

Item				A	B

1 City as place to live 	2 	3
2 Neighborhood 			2 	3
3 Housing 			2 	3
4 Life in the U.S. 		2 	3
5 Amount of educat. 		2 	1
6 Useful education 		2 	1
7 Job 				1 	7
8 Spare time 			1 	4
9 Health 			2 	9
10 Standard of living		1 	2
11 Savings, investmt.		2 	2
12 Friendships 			2 	4
13 Marriage 			2 	5
14 Family life 			1 	5
15 Life in general 		1 	8