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: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
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
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.17 -
- SD:
- 0.63 -
Correlational Findings
Unfit for work