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Distributional findings

Study NIPO (1949): study AU 1948

Public
18+ aged, general public, Australia, 1948
Survey name
Gallup poll
Sample
Probability multistage stratified area sample
Respondents
N = 0
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
Self report on single question

In general, how happy would you say (that) you are ?
3  very happy
2  fairly happy
1  not very happy/ not at all happy

Originally 4 step scale, 'not at all'  scores added to 'not very'
Classification:
O-HL-g-sq-v-3-j
Remarks:
Answers were scored on a 4 step scale, but in the report the options 'not very happy' and 'not at all happy' were combined. The full scores have not been traced back as yet. Computation of transformed mean and standarddeviation is therefore not possible.
Page in publication:
2
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 3%,   2: 39%,   3: 53%   (total 95%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.53 -
SD:
0.56 -