| 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, 1991 |
| Collect period | 7/25 |
| Survey name | Gallup poll |
| Sample | Probability multistage stratified area sample |
| Weighting | Y |
| Respondents N = | 1215 |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: telephone (CATI) |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| 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 |
| Remarks | Also reported in Saad 2004 |
| DKNA % | 1.0 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.35 | 7.51 |
| Standard deviation | 0.65 | 1.75 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| % | 9.8 | 45.0 | 44.2 |
| Full text | Self report on single question We'd like to know how satisfied or dissatisfied you are with different aspects of your life. Are you completely satisfied. Somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied, or completely dissatisfied with …. Your life as a whole? 4 completely satisfied 3 somewhat satisfied 2 somewhat dissatisfied 1 completely dissatisfied - don't know |
| Classification | O-SLW-u-sq-v-4-e |
| DKNA % | 1.6 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 4 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 3.27 | 7.40 |
| Standard deviation | 0.75 | 2.17 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| % | 3.1 | 8.3 | 46.2 | 40.8 |
| Full text | Self report on single question We'd like to know how satisfied or dissatisfied you are with different aspects of your life. Are you completely satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied, or completely dissatisfied with … Your personal life? 4 completely satisfied 3 somewhat satisfied 2 somewhat dissatisfied 1 completely dissatisfied - don't know |
| Classification | O-SLP-u-sq-v-4-a |
| DKNA % | 1.3 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 4 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 3.43 | 7.89 |
| Standard deviation | 0.71 | 2.06 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| % | 2.4 | 5.8 | 37.0 | 53.5 |