Easterlin (1974): study US 1970
Publication
- Author(s):
- Easterlin, R.A.
- Title:
- Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence.
- Source:
- David, P.A.;Melvin, W.R.;Eds.: "Nations and Households in Economic Growth", Academic Press, 1974, New York, USA, 89 - 125.
Investigation
- Public
- Adults, general public, USA, 1970
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 1517
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taking all things together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are...?
3 very happy
2 fairly happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 100
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 43%, 2: 48%, 3: 6% (total 97%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 1.62 5.61
- SD:
- 0.60 1.50