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Distributional findings

Study General Social Survey (2011): study US 1988

Public
18+ aged, general public, United States, 1988
Survey name
US-GSS 1988
Sample
Probability multi-stage random
Respondents
N = 1481
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: 8.2%,   2: 55.3%,   3: 35.8%   (total 99.3%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.28 7.42
SD:
0.60 1.57