Smith (1979): study US 1970
Publication
- Author(s):
- Smith, T.W.
- Title:
- Happiness: Time Trends, Seasonal Variations, Intersurvey Differences, and Other Mysteries.
- Source:
- Social Psychology Quarterly, 1979, Vol. 42, 18 - 30
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, United States, 1970
- Survey name
- Gallup poll
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 1517
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
In general, how happy would you say you are ?
3 very happy
2 fairly happy
1 not happy - Classification:
- O-HL-g-sq-v-3-I
- Remarks:
- Table 3 refers to this item as A6 but it is item A7. In the appendix the question wordings A6 and A7 are reversed (personal communication Tom Smith 12-10-2001)
- Page in publication:
- 22
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 6.2%, 2: 49.5%, 3: 44.3% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.38 7.50
- SD:
- 0.60 1.83