| Publication | |
| Author(s) | General Social Survey, |
| Title | US General Social Survey: Website |
| Source | National Opinion Research Center (NORC), Chicago USA |
| URL | http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/GSS+Website/ |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18+ aged, general public, United States, 1978 |
| Collect period | 1 |
| Survey name | US-GSS 1978 |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Respondents N = | 1533 |
| 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 | 10-1989 |
| DKNA % | 0.7 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.27 | 7.39 |
| Standard deviation | 0.59 | 1.54 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| % | 7.7 | 57.5 | 34.1 |