Findings on happiness in General Social Survey (2011): study US 2002

Publication
Author(s)General Social Survey,
TitleUS General Social Survey: Website
SourceNational Opinion Research Center (NORC), Chicago USA
URLhttp://www.norc.uchicago.edu/GSS+Website/
Investigation
Public18+ aged, general public, United States, 2002
Collect periodspring
Survey nameUS-GSS 2002
SampleProbability multi-stage random
WeightingY
Respondents N =2765
Non Response30
AssesmentInterview: face-to-face
General remarksAbove percentages are only of the valid cases of given answers. If we take the total, we get: 1(not too happy):6,1; 2:28,4; 3:15; missing: NAP: 50,4; DKNA: 0,1
Happiness measure(s) used
Full textSelf 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
ClassificationO-HL-c-sq-v-3-aa
RemarksAbove percentages are only of the valid cases of given answers. If we take the total, we get: 1(not too happy):6,1; 2:28,4; 3:15; missing: NAP: 50,4; DKNA: 0,1
DKNA %50.7
Finding used in
nation ranks		Yes
 On original range 1 - 3On range 0 - 10
Mean2.217.26
Standard deviation0.631.63

Scores in123
%5.627.616.2