Aldous & Ganey (1999): study US 1972
Publication
- Author(s):
- Aldous, J.; Ganey, R.F.
- Title:
- Family Life and the Pursuit of Happiness.
- Source:
- Journal of Family Issues, 1999, Vol. 20, 155 - 180
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, USA, 1972-1993
- Survey name
- US-GSS
- Sample
- Probability stratified sample
- Respondents
- N = 101630
- 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:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 5
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.10 -
- SD:
- - -