Levinson (2011): study US 1984
Publication
- Author(s):
- Levinson, A.
- Title:
- Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data: The Case of Air Quality
- Source:
- Journal of Public Economics, 96, 869-880
Investigation
- Public:
- 15+ aged, general public, United States, 1984-1996
- Survey name:
- US-GSS
- Sample:
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents:
- N = 6035
- Non Response:
- Assessment:
- Interview: telephone (CATI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Selfreport on single question:
Taking all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are .....?
3 very happy
2 pretty happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-a
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0%, 2: 0%, 3: 0%
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.17
- SD:
- 0.63
Correlational Findings
Unfit for work