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Distributional findings

Study Gallup (2008): study US 2001 /2

Public
18+ aged, general public, United States, 2001
Survey name
Gallup poll
Sample
Probability multistage stratified area sample
Respondents
N = 1005
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
Self report on single question:

Generally speaking, how happy would you say you are.....?
3   very happy
2   fairly happy
1   not too happy
Classification:
O-HL-g-sq-v-3-d
Remarks:
Also reported in Saad 2004
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 10.69%,   2: 52.23%,   3: 36.88%   (total 99.8%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.26 7.28
SD:
0.64 1.71