| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Gallup, |
| Title | Gallup Brain: Archive of Gallup polls since 1935 |
| Source | The Gallup Organization, USA |
| URL | http://brain.gallup.com/home.aspx |
| Investigation | |
| Public | Adults, age range not reported, general public, United States, 1947 |
| Collect period | 9 |
| 1947/9 to 48/1 | |
| Survey name | US-AIPO-410T |
| Sample | Probability sample (unspecified) |
| Respondents N = | 1414 |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| General remarks | Also reported in Smith 1979 p.22 |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: In general, how happy would you say you are..? 4 very happy 3 fairly happy 2 not very happy 1 not at all happy - NA/DK |
| Classification | O-HL-g-sq-v-4-b |
| Page in publication | #410 |
| Remarks | Also reported in Smith 1979 p.22 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 4 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 3.32 | 7.39 |
| Standard deviation | 0.68 | 1.90 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| % | 1.4 | 8.2 | 47.7 | 42.7 |