Mookherjee (1998): study US 1991
Publication
- Author(s):
- Mookherjee, H.N.
- Title:
- Perception of Happiness among Elderly Persons in Metropolitan USA.
- Source:
- Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1998, Vol. 87, 787 - 793
Investigation
- Public
- 60+aged, metropolitian areas, USA, 1982-1991
- Survey name
- US-NORC
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 2739
- Non Response
- 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:
- Perception of happiness
- Page in publication:
- 788
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 13%, 2: 51%, 3: 36% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.23 7.30
- SD:
- 0.66 1.72