Easterlin (2001): study US 1994
Publication
- Author(s):
- Easterlin, R.A.
- Title:
- Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory.
- Source:
- The Economic Journal, 2001, Vol. 111, 465 - 484
Investigation
- Public
- Adults, general public, USA, 1994
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 2627
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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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
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 12%, 2: 60%, 3: 28% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.16 7.12
- SD:
- 0.61 1.59