Gallup (2008): study US 1960
Publication
- Author(s):
- Gallup,
- Title:
- Gallup Brain: Archive of Gallup polls since 1935
- Source:
- The Gallup Organization, USA
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, United States, 1960
- Survey name
- Gallup poll
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 2595
- Non Response
- 0
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
We would like to rate your happiness on this scale. You notice that the 10 boxes on this scale go from the HIGHEST POSITION OF PLUS 5 - or extremely happy - all the way down to the LOWEST POSITION OF MINUS 5 - or extremely unhappy.
Please tell me how far up the scale or how far down the scale you would rate HOW HAPPY YOU ARE IN GENERAL?
+5 (10) extremely happy
+4
+3
+2
+1
-1
-2
-3
-4
-5 (1) extremely unhappy - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-n-10-a
- Page in publication:
- #623
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1.23%, 2: 0.19%, 3: 0.31%, 4: 0.92%, 5: 1.39%, 6: 5.16%, 7: 7.28%, 8: 28.71%, 9: 20.77%, 10: 29.06% (total 95.02%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 8.44 8.27
- SD:
- 1.62 1.80