| Publication | |
| Author(s) | DDB lifestyle survey, |
| Title | Happiness in US states |
| Source | Data released on request, June 2000 |
| URL | http://www.bowlingalone.com |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18+ aged, general public, United States, 2006 |
| Survey name | US-GSS 2006 |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Respondents N = | 4510 |
| Non Response | 0 |
| 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 |
| DKNA % | 33.7 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.21 | 7.24 |
| Standard deviation | 0.63 | 1.64 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| % | 7.8 | 37.1 | 21.5 |