Ferriss (2002): study US 1972
Publication
- Author(s):
- Ferriss, A.L.
- Title:
- Religion and the Quality of Life.
- Source:
- Journal of Happiness Studies, 2002, Vol. 3, 199 - 215
Investigation
- Public
- 18 + aged, general public, United States, 1972-1996
- Sample
- Probability sample (unspecified)
- Respondents
- N = 34706
- Non Response
- 0,7%
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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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:
- 205
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 12.1%, 2: 55.7%, 3: 32.2% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.20 7.22
- SD:
- 0.63 1.65