Smith (1979): study US 1956
Publication
- Author(s):
- Smith, T.W.
- Title:
- Happiness: Time Trends, Seasonal Variations, Intersurvey Differences, and Other Mysteries.
- Source:
- Social Psychology Quarterly, 1979, Vol. 42, 18 - 30
Investigation
- Public
- Adults, age range not reported, general public, United States, 1956
- Survey name
- US-AIPO-569
- Sample
- Probability sample (unspecified)
- Respondents
- N = 2240
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
In general, how happy would you say you are..?
4 very happy
3 fairly happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy
- NA/DK - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-v-4-b
- Page in publication:
- 22
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 2.4%, 2: 3.9%, 3: 44.4%, 4: 50.5% (total 101.2%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.41 7.66
- SD:
- 0.68 1.89