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Distributional findings

Study Easterlin (1974): study ZZ 1965

Public
General public, 9 nations, 1965
Sample
Respondents
N = 10781
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
Self report on single question:

Taking all things together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are...?
3   very happy
2   fairly happy
1   not too happy
Classification:
O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab
Author's label:
Happiness
Remarks:
In Japan the questions had only two response options: happy or not happy
Page in publication:
107
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.13 5.67
SD:
0.02 0.11