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Distributional findings

Study General Social Survey (2011): study US 1982

Public
18+ aged, general public, United States, 1982
Survey name
US-GSS 1982
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 1862
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
Self report on single question:

Taken all together, how would you say things are these days?   Would you say that you are....?
3  very happy
2  pretty happy
1  not too happy
Classification:
O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aa
Page in publication:
10-1989
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 11.7%,   2: 53.5%,   3: 34.7%   (total 99.9%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.23 7.30
SD:
0.64 1.67