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Distributional findings

Study Gallup (2008): study US 1982

Public
16+ aged, general public, United States, 1982
Survey name
Gallup poll
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 2713
Non Response
2
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
Self report on single question:

In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in your own personal life?
1  dissatisfied
2  satisfied
Classification:
O-SLP-g-sq-v-2-b
Remarks:
Also reported in Saad 2004
Page in publication:
#204G
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 23.62%,   2: 74.86%   (total 98.48%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 2 On range 0-10
Mean:
1.76 7.16
SD:
0.43 2.39