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Distributional findings

Study Smith (1979): study US 1972 /1

Public
Adults, general public, United States, 1972
Survey name
US-SRC-ELEC
Sample
Probability sample (unspecified)
Respondents
N = 1056
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
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: 11%,   2: 67%,   3: 22%   (total 100%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.11 6.99
SD:
0.56 1.47