Flavin & Keane (2012): study US 2000
Publication
- Author(s):
- Flavin, P.; Keane, M.J.
- Title:
- Life Satisfaction and Political Participation: Evidence from the United States.
- Source:
- Journal of Happiness Studies, 2012, Vol. 13, 63 - 78
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general piblic USA, 2000
- Survey name
- US-ANES 2000
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 1548
- Non Response
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
face-to-face by traditional area probability sampling; telephone by RDD sampling (Random digit dialing)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question :
"On the whole, how satisfied would you say you are with your way of life today.......?"
3 very satisfied
2 fairly satisfied
1 not very satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLL-c-sq-v-3-d
- Author's label:
- life satisfaction
- Page in publication:
- 67
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 13.1%, 2: 66.5%, 3: 20.4% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.07 6.70
- SD:
- 0.57 1.61