Saad (2004): study US 1977
Publication
- Author(s):
- Saad, L.
- Title:
- A Nation of Happy People. Most Happy and Satisfied with Their Lives.
- Source:
- Gallup Poll News Services, 5 January 2004, Gallup Organization, Washington DC, USA
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, United States, 1977
- Survey name
- Gallup poll
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 0
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Generally speaking, how happy would you say you are.....?
3 very happy
2 fairly happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-v-3-d
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 10%, 2: 48%, 3: 42% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.32 7.44
- SD:
- 0.65 1.73