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General happiness

Source: R/gss_vars_49.R
happy.Rd

happy

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

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?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

yearno answernot too happypretty happyvery happydon't knowiapskipped on webTotal
19727265855486---1613
19734196766538---1504
19744194725561---1484
19755194803488---1490
1976-188800511---1499
19773182813532---1530
197815145851521---1532
198051957714961--1468
198252691019567---1860
198326201882490---1599
1984271877565021--1473
19854174918438---1534
198621165816468---1470
1987392391023518---1819
198815136832498---1481
198911148880498---1537
199011122784455---1372
199113165872467---1517
19935178917506---1606
19941436417568571--2992
19961834916598771--2904
19982434015758912--2832
20003929316038811--2817
2002217078441511393-2765
2004118073841921472-2812
2006-390167692061518-4510
2008631611005992--2023
2010331711845382--2044
2012427710945936--1974
2014234114037866--2538
2016545216018063--2867
2018-33613077014--2348
2021192323087831-164032
20224799194277911-93544
20243705189268413-123309
Total3461009539705210696443833775699

Values

  • 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(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