Study Phillips & Clancy (1972): study US New England 1967

Public

21+ aged , general public, eastern states, USA, 196?

Sample

Respondents

N = 404

Non Response

3.7%

Assessment

Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Happiness of Interviewer

Our Classification

Remarks

25 white female interviewers. All were high-school graduates, between the ages of 25 and 49, who had at least one year of experience as marketing and public opinion research interviewers. Interviewers answered this question, ostentibly in the context of a training excercise. Later they asked the same question to respondents in telephone interviews

Operationalization

Self report on a single question:
Taking all things together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are:
3: Very happy
2: Pretty happy
1: Not too happy

Observed Relation with Happiness