Firebaugh & Schroeder (2009): study US 2000
Publication
- Author(s):
- Firebaugh, G.; Schroeder, M.B.
- Title:
- Does Your Neighbor's Income Affect Your Happiness?
- Source:
- American Journal of Sociology, 2009, Vol. 115, 805 - 831
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, United States, 2000
- Survey name
- US-ANES 2000
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage random
- Respondents
- N = 1000
- Non Response
- 0
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
In general how satisfying do you find the way you are spending your life these days. Would you call it.....?
3 completely satisfying
2 pretty satisfying
1 not very satisfying - Classification:
- O-SLL-c-sq-v-3-a
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 13%, 2: 66.5%, 3: 20.5% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.08 6.93
- SD:
- 0.57 1.72