| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Cushing, J. |
| Title | Australian National Social Science Survey: First round 1984. |
| Source | Social Science Data Archives, Australia, Codebook SSDA study no. 423 |
| Investigation | |
| Public | Adults, age range not reported, general public, Australia, 1984 |
| Survey name | AU-National Social Scien |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Respondents N = | 3012 |
| 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 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.26 | 7.38 |
| Standard deviation | 0.56 | 1.45 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| % | 6.0 | 62.0 | 32.0 |