Study Gallup (1998): study US 1952
- Public
- Adults, age range not reported, general public, United States, 1952
- Survey name
- US-AIPO-508
- Sample
- Probability sample (unspecified)
- Respondents
- N = 2862
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness measure(s)
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
In general, how happy would you say you are..?
4 very happy
3 fairly happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy
- NA/DK - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-v-4-b
- Remarks:
- Also reported in Smith 1979, p. 22
Table 3 refers to this item as A7 but it is item A6. In the appendix the question wordings A6 and A7 are reversed (personal communication Tom Smith 12-10-2001) - Page in publication:
- #508
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1.33%, 2: 7.86%, 3: 42.99%, 4: 47.05% (total 99.23%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.37 7.53
- SD:
- 0.69 1.92