Gillespie (2001): study US 2001
Publication
- Author(s):
- Gillespie, M.
- Title:
- Americans Generally in a Good Mood These Days. Most Satisfied with Their Lives, Higher-Income Americans Tend to be Slightly Happier.
- Source:
- Gallup Poll News Service, 18 January 2001, The Gallup Organization, Washington DC, USA
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, United States, 2001
- Survey name
- Gallup poll
- Sample
- Probability sample (unspecified)
- Respondents
- N = 1004
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Now thinking about today, how would you describe your mood, has it been ..?
1 very bad
2 somewhat bad
3 good nor bad
4 somewhat good
5 very good - Classification:
- A-AOL-md-sq-v-5-a
- Author's label:
- Your mood today
- Page in publication:
- 2
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 2%, 2: 5%, 3: 9%, 4: 41%, 5: 42% (total 99%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 4.17 7.93
- SD:
- 0.93 2.33