| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Jones, J.M. |
| Title | Americans: Life is Good and Will only Improve. |
| Source | Gallup Poll News Services, 17 February 2004, The Gallup Organization, Washington DC, USA |
| URL | https://worlddatabaseofhappiness-archive.eur.nl/hap_bib/freetexts/jones_jm_2004.pdf |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18+ aged, general public, Malta, 2003 |
| Collect period | 5-6 |
| Survey name | EU-EQLS 2003 |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Weighting | Y |
| Respondents N = | 600 |
| Non Response | 9 |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: All things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life these days? Please tell me on a scale of 1 to 10, where one means very dissatisfied and 10 means very satisfied 10 very satisfied 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 very dissatisfied |
| Classification | O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-b |
| Page in publication | 61 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 7.26 | 6.96 |
| Standard deviation | 1.98 | 2.20 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| % | 2.5 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 9.6 | 11.4 | 23.1 | 24.5 | 11.2 | 13.7 |