| 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 |
| URL | http://news.gallup.com/poll/10090/nation-happy-people.aspx |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18+ aged, general public, USA, 2003 |
| Collect period | 12 |
| December 11-14th | |
| Survey name | Gallup poll |
| Sample | Probability simple random sample |
| Weighting | Y |
| Respondents were randomly selected adults from across the nation. 95% confidence that the maximum error attributable to sampling and other random effects is ±3 percentage points. | |
| Respondents N = | 1011 |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: telephone (CATI) |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Self report on single question: Generally speaking, how happy would you say you are.....? 3 very happy 2 fairly happy 1 not too happy |
| Classification | O-HL-g-sq-v-3-d |
| Author's label | Happiness |
| Page in publication | 1 |
| DKNA % | 0.8 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.51 | 7.95 |
| Standard deviation | 0.58 | 1.57 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| % | 4.1 | 40.4 | 54.8 |
| Full text | Self report on single question: In general, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the way things are going in your personal life at this time? Are you 4 very satisfied 3 somewhat satisfied 2 somewhat dissatisfied 1 very dissatisfied |
| Classification | O-SLP-c-sq-v-4-a |
| Author's label | satisfaction with own life |
| DKNA % | 1.0 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 4 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 3.43 | 7.89 |
| Standard deviation | 0.79 | 2.02 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| % | 4.0 | 7.0 | 30.0 | 58.0 |
| Author's label | Our subject description | |
| Age | show | Current age (in years) |
| Gender | show | Sexe: male (vs female) |
| Income | show | Current income level (unspecified) |
| Income | show | Current income level (unspecified) |
| Marital status | show | Married state (compared to non-married states) |
| Political Party ID | show | Current political (party) preference |
| Race | show | Ethnic status in the USA |