WASHINGTON -Almost half Americans consider it a constant struggle to stay happy and healthy these are the suggestions of a big survey that tries to know the common well-being of the Americans.The survey was very similar to Dow Jones Industrial Average depiction which informed about the health of the stock exchange.

In this survey interviews of almost 100,000 people were recorded and results showed that 47% of Americans were strugglers and 4% were sufferers and almost 49% were thriving people as based on assessment how did they feel about life during survey and where did they see themselves in the coming five years.

In this survey people were asked to visualize where they put themselves on a 10 step ladder.The people who found themselves on step 7 were listed as happy and flourishing. People on step 4 or below were the sufferers and between those were struggling people.
People with more education, higher income and less sickness were the representative of thriving class and people who were facing problems to make their both ends meet and deprived of basic needs like food, residence and medication considered as sufferers.