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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 157. Taken all together, how would you say things are these days - would you say that you are very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | no answer | not too happy | pretty happy | very happy | don't know | iap | skipped on web | Total |
| 1972 | 7 | 265 | 855 | 486 | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 4 | 196 | 766 | 538 | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 4 | 194 | 725 | 561 | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 5 | 194 | 803 | 488 | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | - | 188 | 800 | 511 | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 3 | 182 | 813 | 532 | - | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 15 | 145 | 851 | 521 | - | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 5 | 195 | 771 | 496 | 1 | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 5 | 269 | 1019 | 567 | - | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 26 | 201 | 882 | 490 | - | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 27 | 187 | 756 | 502 | 1 | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 4 | 174 | 918 | 438 | - | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 21 | 165 | 816 | 468 | - | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 39 | 239 | 1023 | 518 | - | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 15 | 136 | 832 | 498 | - | - | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 11 | 148 | 880 | 498 | - | - | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 11 | 122 | 784 | 455 | - | - | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 13 | 165 | 872 | 467 | - | - | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 5 | 178 | 917 | 506 | - | - | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 14 | 364 | 1756 | 857 | 1 | - | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 18 | 349 | 1659 | 877 | 1 | - | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 24 | 340 | 1575 | 891 | 2 | - | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 39 | 293 | 1603 | 881 | 1 | - | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 2 | 170 | 784 | 415 | 1 | 1393 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1 | 180 | 738 | 419 | 2 | 1472 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | - | 390 | 1676 | 920 | 6 | 1518 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 6 | 316 | 1100 | 599 | 2 | - | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 3 | 317 | 1184 | 538 | 2 | - | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 4 | 277 | 1094 | 593 | 6 | - | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 2 | 341 | 1403 | 786 | 6 | - | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 5 | 452 | 1601 | 806 | 3 | - | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | - | 336 | 1307 | 701 | 4 | - | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 1 | 923 | 2308 | 783 | 1 | - | 16 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 4 | 799 | 1942 | 779 | 11 | - | 9 | 3544 |
| Total | 343 | 9390 | 37813 | 20385 | 51 | 4383 | 25 | 72390 |
1 very happy
2 pretty happy
3 not too happy
NA(d) don't know
NA(i) iap
NA(j) I don't have a job
NA(m) dk, na, iap
NA(n) no answer
NA(p) not imputable
NA(q) not imputable
NA(r) refused
NA(s) skipped on web
NA(u) uncodeable
NA(x) not available in this release
NA(y) not available in this year
NA(z) see codebook