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TABLE 1 and FIGURES 1 and 3: National Opinion Research Center
(1999). General Social Surveys, 1972-1998: Cumulative Codebook.
Chicago: National Opinion Research Center.
The data utilized is included as a compressed (zip) comma-separated
Ascii file labeled 'happy.zip'.
TABLE 2, Basic data appear in: Cantril, H. (1965). The Pattern
of Human Concerns. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
TABLE 3, Basic data appear in: Bachman, J.G., L.D. Johnston,
and P.M. O'Malley (1980). Monitoring the Future: Questionnaire
Responses from the Nation's High School Seniors, 1976. Ann
Arbor, MI: Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research.
TABLES 4 and 5, Basic data appear in: Roper-Starch Organization
(1979). Roper Reports 79-I. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut,
The Roper Center. Roper-Starch Organization (1995). Roper
Reports 95-I. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, The Roper
Center.
Table 4 is derived from the following:
Early life cycle Mid life cycle
Start End Start End
Mean number of Consumer Goods Desired:
| a. Schooling greater than 12 years |
4.3 |
5.7 |
4.4 |
5.7 |
| b. Schooling 12 years or less |
4.4 |
5.4 |
4.3 |
5.2 |
Mean number of Consumer Goods Owned:
| a. Schooling greater than 12 years |
1.8 |
3.4 |
2.8 |
3.8 |
| b. Schooling 12 years or less |
1.7 |
2.8 |
2.3 |
2.7 |
The data utilized for Table 5 are included as comma-separated
Ascii files labled 'tglT579.csv' and 'tglT595.csv'. Data dictionaries
for those files are as follows:
dictionary tglT579.csv {
float year
float age "AGE"
byte pgl_home "PGL_HOME"
byte pgl_yard "PGL_YARD"
byte pgl_car "PGL_CAR"
byte pgl_2car "PGL_2CAR"
byte pgl_vhom "PGL_VHOM"
byte pgl_swim "PGL_SWIM"
byte pgl_swim "PGL_SWIM"
byte pgl_clth "PGL_CLTH"
byte pgl_tv "PGL_TV"
byte pgl_2tv "PGL_2TV"
int inc_79 "INC_79"
double inc_94 "INC_94"
float ln_inc94 "LN_INC94"
}
dictionary tglT595.csv {
float year float age "AGE"
byte pgl_home "PGL_HOME"
byte pgl_yard "PGL_YARD"
byte pgl_car "PGL_CAR"
byte pgl_2car "PGL_2CAR"
byte pgl_vhom "PGL_VHOM"
byte pgl_swim "PGL_SWIM"
byte pgl_swim "PGL_SWIM"
byte pgl_clth "PGL_CLTH"
byte pgl_tv "PGL_TV"
byte pgl_2tv "PGL_2TV"
double income "INCOME"
}
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