Cantril (1951): study US 1946
Publication
- Author(s):
- Cantril, H.
- Title:
- Public Opinion 1935-1946.
- Source:
- Princeton University Press, 1951, Princeton, NJ, USA
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, United States, 1946
- Survey name
- US-AIPO-369
- Sample
- Probability sample (unspecified)
- Respondents
- N = 3152
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
If you were to consider your life in general these days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole...?
4 very happy
3 fairly happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-4-f
- Page in publication:
- 281
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1%, 2: 8%, 3: 50%, 4: 39% (total 98%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.30 7.33
- SD:
- 0.66 1.84