| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Gallup, |
| Title | Gallup Brain: Archive of Gallup polls since 1935 |
| Source | The Gallup Organization, USA |
| URL | http://brain.gallup.com/home.aspx |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18+ aged, general public, United States, 1981 |
| Collect period | 12/11-14th |
| Survey name | Gallup poll |
| Sample | Probability multistage stratified area sample |
| Weighting | Y |
| Respondents N = | 1483 |
| Non Response | 0 |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Self report on single question: Now here are some questions concerning how satisfied - or dissatisfied - you are with various things about your life, such as your standard of living, your education etc. To indicate this, would you use this card. If you are extremely satisfied with something you would call of the highest number, ten. If you are extremely dissatisfied, you would mention the lowest number, zero. If you are neither extremely satisfied nor extremely dissatisfied you would mention some number in between zero and ten - the higher the number, the more satisfied, the lower the number the less satisfied. Considering everything, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with……. your personal life? 0 extremely dissatisfied 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 extremely satisfied |
| Classification | O-SLP-u-sq-n-11-a |
| Page in publication | #187G |
| DKNA % | 0.8 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 0 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 7.92 | 7.92 |
| Standard deviation | 2.08 | 2.08 |
| Scores in | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| % | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 6.8 | 6.9 | 11.8 | 21.9 | 19.3 | 26.5 |
| Full text | Self report on single question: Generally speaking, how happy would you say you are.....? 3 very happy 2 fairly happy 1 not too happy |
| Classification | O-HL-g-sq-v-3-d |
| Page in publication | #187G |
| DKNA % | 0.4 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.39 | 7.61 |
| Standard deviation | 0.58 | 1.58 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| % | 4.9 | 51.0 | 43.8 |