| Publication | |
| Author(s) | General Social Survey, |
| Title | US General Social Survey: Website |
| Source | National Opinion Research Center (NORC), Chicago USA |
| URL | http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/GSS+Website/ |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18+ aged, general public, United States, 2010 |
| Survey name | US-GSS 2010 |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Respondents N = | 2044 |
| Non Response | 0 |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Self report on single question: Taking all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are .....? 3 very happy 2 pretty happy 1 not too happy |
| Classification | O-HL-c-sq-v-3-a |
| DKNA % | 0.3 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.11 | 6.98 |
| Standard deviation | 0.64 | 1.66 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| % | 15.5 | 57.9 | 26.3 |