Table 1.

Sample Sizes, Means, and Standard Deviations of Life Satisfaction by Gender, Marital Status, and Employment Status in Oregon.

	Oregon (N = 2,277)
	Single-Item						SWLS
				Comparison						Comparison
					95% CI						95% CI
	n	M	SD	d	Lower	Upper	n	M	SD	d	Lower	Upper
Gender
Male†	861	3.40	0.64				869	4.00	0.88
Female	1400	3.39	0.63	0.02	−0.07	0.10	1408	4.01	0.89	−0.01	−0.10	0.07
Marital Status
Married†	1248	3.54a	0.57				1254	4.20a	0.76
Divorce/Separated	405	3.15c	0.72	0.64	0.52	0.75	407	3.63c	1.04	0.68	0.56	0.79
Widowed	329	3.29b	0.59	0.44	0.31	0.56	335	3.93b	0.87	0.34	0.22	0.47
Never Married	269	3.23bc	0.64	0.53	0.40	0.66	271	3.78bc	0.87	0.54	0.41	0.67
Employment Status
Employed	951	3.46a	0.58	0.03	−0.14	0.20	954	4.03b	0.80	0.17	0.01	0.34
Unemployed	148	3.11b	0.72	0.56	0.34	0.79	150	3.54c	1.00	0.69	0.46	0.92
Homemaker†	158	3.47a	0.55				158	4.17ab	0.82
Student	48	3.25ab	0.60	0.39	0.07	0.72	49	4.03ab	0.80	0.17	−0.15	0.49
Retired	808	3.46a	0.61	0.02	−0.15	0.19	815	4.16a	0.81	0.01	−0.16	0.18
Unable to Work	133	2.80c	0.77	1.02	0.77	1.26	133	3.21d	1.14	0.98	0.74	1.22
Overall	2261	3.39	0.63				2277	4.01	0.88

Note. † denotes the comparison group with which Cohen’s ds are computed. For marital status and employment status, means for the same measure that do not share a subscript are significantly different from each other at p<.05 (two-tailed) Means that do not share a subscript are significantly different from each other at p <.05 (two-tailed).