Ferriss (2002a): study US 1996
Publication
- Author(s):
- Ferriss, A.L.
- Title:
- Does Material Well-Being affect Non-Material Well-Being.
- Source:
- Social Indicators Research, 2002, Vol. 60, 275 - 280
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, USA, 1966
- Sample
- Probability sample (unspecified)
- Respondents
- N = 2544
- Non Response
- not reported
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- 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
- Author's label:
- General Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 278
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 11.9%, 2: 58.2%, 3: 30% (total 100.1%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.18 5.91
- SD:
- 0.62 3.11