Study Cantril (1951): study GB 1946 /1

Public

Adults, age range not reported, general public, United Kingdom, 1946

Survey name

UK-BIPO

Sample

Probability sample (unspecified)

Respondents

N = 1000

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:

Self report on single question:

If you were to consider your life in general these days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole...?
4  very happy
3  fairly happy
2  not very happy
1  not at all happy

Classification:

O-HL-c-sq-v-4-f

Page in publication:

281

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 6%,   2: 0%,   3: 56%,   4: 38%   (total 100%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10

Mean:

3.26 7.23

SD:

0.74 2.06