Thomas & Hughes (1986): study US 1972
Publication
- Author(s):
- Thomas, M.E.; Hughes, M.D.
- Title:
- The Continuing Significance of Race: A study of Race, Class, and Quality of Life in America, 1972- 1985.
- Source:
- American Sociological Review, 1986, Vol. 51, 830 - 841
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, USA, 1972-85
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage cluster sample
- Respondents
- N = 18000
- Non Response
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taken all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say that you are....?
3 very happy
2 pretty happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aa
- Author's label:
- General happiness
- Page in publication:
- 835
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.14 -
- SD:
- - -