General Social Survey (2011): study US 2002 /1
Publication
- Author(s):
- General Social Survey,
- Title:
- US General Social Survey: Website
- Source:
- National Opinion Research Center (NORC), Chicago USA
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, United States, 2002
- Survey name
- US-GSS 2002
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage random
- Respondents
- N = 1160
- Non Response
- 32,5
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
If you were to consider your life in general these days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole...?
4 very happy
3 fairly happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-4-f
- Remarks:
- Data ISSP module; Values in distribution: a=4;b=3,c=2;d=1;
Above percentages are only of the valid cases of given answers. If we take the total, we get: 1(not at all happy):0,5 2:2,7 3:20,8; 4:16,8 missing: NAP: 58,4; DKNA: 0,7
Vallid responses: 1229 - Page in publication:
- 1125
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1.2%, 2: 6.7%, 3: 50.9%, 4: 41.1% (total 99.9%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.32 7.39
- SD:
- 0.65 1.82
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
If you were to consider your life in general, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole?
7 completely happy
6 very happy
5 fairly happy
4 neither happy nor unhappy
3 fairly unhappy
2 very unhappy
1 completely unhappy
- can't choose
- no answer - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-v-7-a
- Remarks:
- This GSS-survey was part of the ISSP survey
- Page in publication:
- 1125
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.09%, 2: 1.37%, 3: 2.73%, 4: 5.89%, 5: 33.39%, 6: 43.55%, 7: 12.04% (total 99.06%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.52 6.81
- SD:
- 0.98 2.82