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Distributional findings

Study Gallup (2008): study US 1948 /1

Public
18+ aged, general public, United States, 1948
Survey name
US-GallupPoll USA1948/5/8-13
Sample
Probability multistage stratified area sample
Respondents
N = 1603
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
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
Page in publication:
#418T
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 2.25%,   2: 6.3%,   3: 48.28%,   4: 42.92%   (total 99.75%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.32 7.40
SD:
0.69 1.93