Study Gove & Zeiss (1987): study US 1974
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, USA, 1974-1975
- Sample
- Probability stratified sample
- Respondents
- N = 2248
- Non Response
- 23,3%
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness measure(s)
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Overall, would you say you are.....?
4 very happy
3 pretty happy
2 not too happy
1 not at all happy. - Classification:
- O-HL-u-sq-v-4-aa
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 125
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 2.8%, 2: 12.5%, 3: 48.9%, 4: 35.7% (total 99.9%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.18 7.09
- SD:
- 0.75 2.07