{
  "alt": "Table with one row for each of nine Gallup items, giving the kind of item, the years it was asked, the number of interviews with an answer and the share of interviews in those years that carry it.",
  "caption": "The ladder and the feelings were asked of the same respondents, and from 2013 each item went to a subsample, which the last column shows. Anger was asked in 2008 to 2013 and again in 2016. The table counts interviews and applies no weights.",
  "data": [
    {
      "interviews": 2217485,
      "kind": "Life evaluation",
      "label": "Ladder now",
      "share": 70,
      "years": "2009 to 2017"
    },
    {
      "interviews": 2124998,
      "kind": "Life evaluation",
      "label": "Ladder in five years",
      "share": 67,
      "years": "2009 to 2017"
    },
    {
      "interviews": 2625590,
      "kind": "Positive feeling",
      "label": "Enjoyment",
      "share": 75,
      "years": "2008 to 2017"
    },
    {
      "interviews": 2464754,
      "kind": "Positive feeling",
      "label": "Happiness",
      "share": 78,
      "years": "2008 to 2016"
    },
    {
      "interviews": 2629572,
      "kind": "Negative feeling",
      "label": "Worry",
      "share": 75,
      "years": "2008 to 2017"
    },
    {
      "interviews": 2629276,
      "kind": "Negative feeling",
      "label": "Stress",
      "share": 75,
      "years": "2008 to 2017"
    },
    {
      "interviews": 2469420,
      "kind": "Negative feeling",
      "label": "Sadness",
      "share": 78,
      "years": "2008 to 2016"
    },
    {
      "interviews": 2099828,
      "kind": "Negative feeling",
      "label": "Anger",
      "share": 85,
      "years": "2008 to 2013 and 2016"
    },
    {
      "interviews": 2629184,
      "kind": "Negative feeling",
      "label": "Physical pain",
      "share": 75,
      "years": "2008 to 2017"
    }
  ],
  "id": "item_coverage",
  "notes": [
    "The 2008 ladder answers are left out: political questions preceded the ladder in 2008 and the 2008 ladder runs low (Deaton 2012). Gallup removed the political questions for part of the sample in early January 2009 and added a transition question in April 2009. The feelings are not affected.",
    "Happiness and anger each have a few stray answers in years when the item was not asked; they are dropped.",
    "Feelings are answers to whether the respondent experienced the feeling during a lot of the day yesterday. The two ladder items are scored 0 to 10; the second asks where the respondent expects to stand in about five years."
  ],
  "source": "Gallup U.S. Daily, ladder 2009-2017 and feelings 2008-2017; unweighted counts of interviews with a county",
  "spec": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "label",
        "label": "Item"
      },
      {
        "key": "kind",
        "label": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "key": "years",
        "label": "Years asked"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "interviews",
        "label": "Interviews with an answer"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 0
        },
        "key": "share",
        "label": "Share of interviews in those years (%)"
      }
    ]
  },
  "subtitle": "Gallup U.S. Daily items used in this chapter: the years each was asked, interviews with a county and an answer, and the share of the interviews in those years that carry the item",
  "title": "The ladder runs from 2009 to 2017 and the feelings from 2008, but happiness and sadness stop after 2016 and anger was not asked in 2014, 2015 or 2017",
  "type": "table",
  "width": "body"
}