| 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 |
| Last assesment | 1996 |
| Survey name | US-GSS |
| Sample | Probability simple random sample |
| Respondents N = | 6035 |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: telephone (CATI) |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Self report 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 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.17 | |
| Standard deviation | 0.63 |
| Author's label | Our subject description | |
| Age | show | Current age (in years) |
| Air pollution | show | Environmental quality |
| College graduare | show | Level of school-education |
| Employed status | show | Current employment status |
| Employed status | show | Unfit for work, also classified as above ↑ |
| Gender | show | Sexe: male (vs female) |
| Health status | show | Self-perceived health |
| Income | show | Current income level (unspecified) |
| Kids | show | Ever had children (vs not) |
| Married | show | Married state (compared to non-married states) |
| Rain | show | Climate |
| Tempertaure mean | show | Climate |