| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Hagerty, M.R. |
| Title | Social Comparison of Incomes in One's Community: Evidence from National Surveys of Income and Happiness. |
| Source | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2000, Vol. 78, 764 - 771 |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18+ aged general public, USA, 1989-1996 |
| Last assesment | 1996 |
| Survey name | CN-GSS 2003 |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage cluster sample |
| Respondents N = | 8362 |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| General remarks | Excluding 1992, 1995 |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Self report on single question: Taking all things together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are...? 3 very happy 2 fairly happy 1 not too happy |
| Classification | O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab |
| Page in publication | 767 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.22 | |
| Standard deviation | 0.61 |
| Author's label | Our subject description | |
| Household income | show | Household income |
| Marital status | show | Married state (compared to non-married states) |
| R-squared | show | Socio-demographic factors only |
| Reference income | show | Relative to income of compatriots |
| Sexe | show | Sexe: male (vs female) |
| Years of education | show | Years schooling |