Study Smith (1979): study US 1963
- Public
- Adults, age range not reported, general public, United States, 1963
- Survey name
- US-NORC-160
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 1501
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness measure(s)
- Full text:
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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:
- 22
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 17%, 2: 51%, 3: 32% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.15 7.09
- SD:
- 0.68 1.78