Study Smith (1979): study US 1956
- Public
- Adults, age range not reported, general public, United States, 1956
- Survey name
- US-AIPO-569
- Sample
- Probability sample (unspecified)
- Respondents
- N = 2240
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness measure(s)
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
In general, how happy would you say you are..?
4 very happy
3 fairly happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy
- NA/DK - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-v-4-b
- Page in publication:
- 22
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 2.4%, 2: 3.9%, 3: 44.4%, 4: 50.5% (total 101.2%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.41 7.66
- SD:
- 0.68 1.89