{
  "alt": "A figure with two tabs. The first is a dumbbell chart of mean ladder scores for respondents who did and did not report each of seven feelings, with positive feelings going with higher scores. The second is a dot plot of correlations between the ladder and each feeling, across respondents and across county means.",
  "caption": "The first tab compares ladder scores of respondents who did and did not report each feeling, and the second gives the correlations. Both are patterns across people or across county averages, and neither shows that a feeling changes a life rating or the reverse.",
  "data": [],
  "id": "ladder_and_feelings",
  "notes": [
    "Gallup's extract has no survey weights, so every estimate is unweighted and levels can differ from the weighted figures Gallup publishes. County comes from the respondent's ZIP code and is approximate near county lines. The ladder is the evaluative measure and the feelings are experiential measures; they are never combined into one index.",
    "The ladder and the feelings were asked of the same respondents, so the comparison uses interviews with both answers. County means need at least the county floor of respondents with each item. Anger is asked in fewer years than the other feelings (see the table of items)."
  ],
  "source": "Gallup U.S. Daily, ladder 2009-2017 and feelings 2008-2017; unweighted, intervals clustered by county",
  "spec": {
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      {
        "figure": {
          "alt": "Dumbbell chart of the mean ladder score for respondents who did and did not report each of seven feelings. For enjoyment and happiness the reported dot is to the right, near seven, and the not-reported dot is to the left, near six; for worry, stress, sadness, anger and pain the reported dot is to the left of the not-reported dot.",
          "caption": "Positive feelings go with higher ladder scores and negative feelings with lower ones, for every feeling. Each dot is an unweighted mean with a 95% interval clustered by county.",
          "data": [
            {
              "feeling": "Enjoyment",
              "group": "Positive feelings",
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              "n_yes": 1900405,
              "no": 5.822,
              "no_hi": 5.842,
              "no_lo": 5.802,
              "yes": 7.277,
              "yes_hi": 7.286,
              "yes_lo": 7.268
            },
            {
              "feeling": "Happiness",
              "group": "Positive feelings",
              "n_no": 230060,
              "n_yes": 1821129,
              "no": 5.67,
              "no_hi": 5.69,
              "no_lo": 5.65,
              "yes": 7.241,
              "yes_hi": 7.249,
              "yes_lo": 7.232
            },
            {
              "feeling": "Worry",
              "group": "Negative feelings",
              "n_no": 1573559,
              "n_yes": 640621,
              "no": 7.418,
              "no_hi": 7.427,
              "no_lo": 7.41,
              "yes": 6.219,
              "yes_hi": 6.237,
              "yes_lo": 6.202
            },
            {
              "feeling": "Stress",
              "group": "Negative feelings",
              "n_no": 1407513,
              "n_yes": 806482,
              "no": 7.435,
              "no_hi": 7.443,
              "no_lo": 7.426,
              "yes": 6.438,
              "yes_hi": 6.455,
              "yes_lo": 6.421
            },
            {
              "feeling": "Sadness",
              "group": "Negative feelings",
              "n_no": 1713579,
              "n_yes": 341114,
              "no": 7.285,
              "no_hi": 7.293,
              "no_lo": 7.276,
              "yes": 5.95,
              "yes_hi": 5.968,
              "yes_lo": 5.933
            },
            {
              "feeling": "Anger",
              "group": "Negative feelings",
              "n_no": 1483704,
              "n_yes": 202942,
              "no": 7.182,
              "no_hi": 7.191,
              "no_lo": 7.173,
              "yes": 6.106,
              "yes_hi": 6.126,
              "yes_lo": 6.086
            },
            {
              "feeling": "Physical pain",
              "group": "Negative feelings",
              "n_no": 1677403,
              "n_yes": 536374,
              "no": 7.293,
              "no_hi": 7.302,
              "no_lo": 7.284,
              "yes": 6.378,
              "yes_hi": 6.391,
              "yes_lo": 6.365
            }
          ],
          "id": "ladder_by_feeling",
          "spec": {
            "group": "group",
            "hi1": "no_hi",
            "hi2": "yes_hi",
            "label1": "Did not report the feeling",
            "label2": "Reported the feeling",
            "lo1": "no_lo",
            "lo2": "yes_lo",
            "n1": "n_no",
            "n2": "n_yes",
            "sort": "data",
            "x1": "no",
            "x2": "yes",
            "xDomain": [
              5,
              8
            ],
            "xFormat": {
              "digits": 1
            },
            "xLabel": "Mean ladder score (0 to 10)",
            "y": "feeling"
          },
          "subtitle": "Unweighted mean ladder score of respondents who did and did not report each feeling a lot of the day yesterday, Gallup U.S. Daily (ladder 2009 to 2017, feelings 2008 to 2017)",
          "title": "Respondents who reported happiness rated their lives {fact:lf_happy} ladder points higher, and those who reported sadness rated them {fact:lf_sad} lower",
          "type": "dumbbell"
        },
        "label": "Ladder by feeling reported"
      },
      {
        "figure": {
          "alt": "Dot plot of correlations of the ladder with seven feelings, two dots each. Enjoyment and happiness are positive and the five negative feelings are negative. The county-mean dots are farther from zero than the respondent dots for most feelings, most clearly for pain, sadness and enjoyment.",
          "caption": "Every correlation has the sign its feeling suggests, and county means move together more tightly than respondents do for most feelings. The respondent dots are correlations across interviews with both answers; the county dots are correlations between county means for counties with enough respondents, weighted by respondents. Intervals come from a bootstrap over counties.",
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              "basis": "Across respondents",
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              "estimate": 0.26,
              "feeling": "Enjoyment",
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              "n_units": 3141
            },
            {
              "basis": "Across county means",
              "conf_high": 0.63,
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              "estimate": 0.595,
              "feeling": "Enjoyment",
              "n": 2175289,
              "n_units": 2356
            },
            {
              "basis": "Across respondents",
              "conf_high": 0.257,
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              "estimate": 0.255,
              "feeling": "Happiness",
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              "n_units": 3140
            },
            {
              "basis": "Across county means",
              "conf_high": 0.588,
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              "estimate": 0.544,
              "feeling": "Happiness",
              "n": 2175189,
              "n_units": 2355
            },
            {
              "basis": "Across respondents",
              "conf_high": -0.277,
              "conf_low": -0.282,
              "estimate": -0.279,
              "feeling": "Worry",
              "n": 2214180,
              "n_units": 3141
            },
            {
              "basis": "Across county means",
              "conf_high": -0.323,
              "conf_low": -0.436,
              "estimate": -0.381,
              "feeling": "Worry",
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            },
            {
              "basis": "Across respondents",
              "conf_high": -0.244,
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              "feeling": "Stress",
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            },
            {
              "basis": "Across county means",
              "conf_high": -0.138,
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              "feeling": "Stress",
              "n": 2175289,
              "n_units": 2356
            },
            {
              "basis": "Across respondents",
              "conf_high": -0.253,
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              "estimate": -0.255,
              "feeling": "Sadness",
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            },
            {
              "basis": "Across county means",
              "conf_high": -0.528,
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              "feeling": "Sadness",
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            },
            {
              "basis": "Across respondents",
              "conf_high": -0.178,
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              "estimate": -0.18,
              "feeling": "Anger",
              "n": 1686646,
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            },
            {
              "basis": "Across county means",
              "conf_high": -0.279,
              "conf_low": -0.394,
              "estimate": -0.337,
              "feeling": "Anger",
              "n": 2169173,
              "n_units": 2298
            },
            {
              "basis": "Across respondents",
              "conf_high": -0.199,
              "conf_low": -0.204,
              "estimate": -0.201,
              "feeling": "Physical pain",
              "n": 2213777,
              "n_units": 3141
            },
            {
              "basis": "Across county means",
              "conf_high": -0.583,
              "conf_low": -0.662,
              "estimate": -0.623,
              "feeling": "Physical pain",
              "n": 2175289,
              "n_units": 2356
            }
          ],
          "id": "ladder_feeling_correlations",
          "spec": {
            "colors": {
              "Across county means": "highlight",
              "Across respondents": "accent"
            },
            "group": "basis",
            "hi": "conf_high",
            "lo": "conf_low",
            "n": "n",
            "reference": 0,
            "referenceLabel": "No correlation",
            "sort": "data",
            "x": "estimate",
            "xDomain": [
              -0.8,
              0.8
            ],
            "xFormat": {
              "digits": 2,
              "signed": true
            },
            "xLabel": "Correlation with the ladder score",
            "y": "feeling"
          },
          "subtitle": "Correlation of the Cantril ladder score with each feeling, across respondents and across county means, Gallup U.S. Daily (ladder 2009 to 2017, feelings 2008 to 2017)",
          "title": "The ladder correlates {fact:r_person_enjoy} with enjoyment across respondents and {fact:r_county_enjoy} across county means, and {fact:r_person_pain} with pain across respondents and {fact:r_county_pain} across county means",
          "type": "dot"
        },
        "label": "Correlations"
      }
    ]
  },
  "subtitle": "Cantril ladder scores against feelings yesterday, by whether the respondent reported each feeling, and the correlation of the two across respondents and across county means",
  "title": "Across respondents the ladder correlates {fact:r_person_worry} with worry and {fact:r_person_enjoy} with enjoyment, and across county means it moves together with most feelings more tightly",
  "type": "tabs",
  "width": "wide"
}