Study General Social Survey (2011): study US 1991 /1

Public

Adults, age range not reported, general public, United States, 1991

Survey name

INT-ISSP 1991

Sample

Probability systematic sample

Respondents

N = 1346

Non Response

22

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:

Self report on single question:

If you were to consider your life in general these days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole...?
4  very happy
3  fairly happy
2  not very happy
1  not at all happy

Classification:

O-HL-c-sq-v-4-f

Remarks:

Data ISSP module of GSS; Values in distribution: a=4;b=3,c=2;d=1;
Above percentages are only of the valid cases of given answers. If we take the total, we get: 1(not at all happy):0,8 2:6,3; 3:48,6; 4:33,0 missing: NAP: 10,4; DKNA: 0,9

Page in publication:

24

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 0.9%,   2: 7.1%,   3: 54.8%,   4: 37.2%   (total 100%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10

Mean:

3.28 7.29

SD:

0.64 1.78