| 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 | Adults, age range not reported, general public, United States, 1965 |
| Collect period | 6 |
| Survey name | US-NORC-857 |
| Sample | Probability multistage stratified area sample |
| Respondents N = | 1468 |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Self report on single question: Taken all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say that you are....? 3 very happy 2 pretty happy 1 not too happy |
| Classification | O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aa |
| Page in publication | 22 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.13 | 7.04 |
| Standard deviation | 0.67 | 1.75 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| % | 17.0 | 53.0 | 30.0 |