| Self report on single question: Generally speaking, how happy would you say you are? 3 very happy 2 somewhat happy 1 not happy | |
| Classification | |
| Focus, O-HL | Overall: Happiness in Life |
| Time frame, g | generally |
| Mode, sq | 1 question |
| Scale type, v | verbal scale Range = 3 |
| Used in studies | |
| Reference | Gallup (2008): study US 1995 |
| Title | Gallup Brain: Archive of Gallup polls since 1935 |
| Public | 18+ aged, general public, United States, 1995 |
| Findings | distributional: yes, correlational: no |