| 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 | 16+ aged, general public, Kansas region, United States, 1990 |
| Survey name | US-DDB-1983-1998 |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Respondents N = | 486 |
| Non Response | 0 |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| General remarks | Inhabitants of this state were selected from pooled samples that were representative for the USA, but the selection may not be quite representative for this state. |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: I am very satisfied with the way things are going in my life these days: 1 definitely disagree 2 3 4 5 6 definitely agree |
| Classification | O-SLP-c-sq-v-6-a |
| Remarks | Inhabitants of this state were selected from pooled samples that were representative for the USA, but the selection may not be quite representative for this state. |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 6 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 4.02 | 6.03 |
| Standard deviation | 1.44 | 2.88 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| % | 7.2 | 9.7 | 15.7 | 23.7 | 29.1 | 14.6 |