Saad (2004): study US 1996
Publication
- Author(s):
- Saad, L.
- Title:
- A Nation of Happy People. Most Happy and Satisfied with Their Lives.
- Source:
- Gallup Poll News Services, 5 January 2004, Gallup Organization, Washington DC, USA
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, United States, 1996
- Survey name
- Gallup poll
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage random
- Respondents
- N = 1000
- Non Response
- 2
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in your own personal life?
1 dissatisfied
2 satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLP-g-sq-v-2-b
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 12%, 2: 86% (total 98%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 2 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 1.88 7.81
- SD:
- 0.33 1.84