Chambers (2000): study US 2000
Publication
- Author(s):
- Chambers, C.
- Title:
- Americans are Overwhelmingly Happy and Optimistic about the Future of the United States.
- Source:
- Gallup Poll News Service, 13 October 2000, The Gallup Organization, Washington DC, USA
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, USA, 2000
- Survey name
- Gallup poll
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 1052
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
In general, how happy would you say you are.....?
3 very happy
2 fairly happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-v-3-c
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 1
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 5%, 2: 47%, 3: 47% (total 99%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.42 7.71
- SD:
- 0.59 1.60