Comparing Survey Measures of Declining Marginal Utility III

Investigator:   Miles Kimball

Project: Tracking the Response of National Happiness to Events



1. Purpose

The purpose of this survey is to study the response of happiness to events, and to relate movements in happiness to altruism, personal news and news seen on television.



2. Brief Summary

In this project, yes/no data on the whether people felt happy, sad, depressed, and whether they enjoyed life in the past week will be collected on all 500 cases on the Surveys of Consumers in each month from April 2007 through January 2008.



3. Project Completion Date

January 31, 2008



4. Target

（1） Population U.S. Residents

（2） Number of Samples 500 per month x 6 months=3000

（3） Sampling Method Random sampling of phone numbers



5. Method

Additional telephone survey to the consumer survey conducted by the University of Michigan



6. Questionnaire

Brief summary are as follows:

① Happy Last Week

② Sad Last Week

③ Depressed Last Week

④ Enjoyed Life Last Week



7. Scheduled Survey Period

April 1, 2007 through January 31, 2008



8. Reports

The result will be reported by submitting the following.

（1） Original data files and input specifications.

Funding Period: 04/01/2006 to 09/30/2006


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