| 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 | 16+ aged, general public, United States, 1986 |
| Collect period | 3 |
| Survey name | Gallup poll |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Weighting | Y |
| Respondents N = | 1129 |
| Non Response | 1 |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| General remarks | Also reported in Saad 2004 |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in your own personal life? 1 dissatisfied 2 satisfied |
| Classification | O-SLP-g-sq-v-2-b |
| Remarks | Also reported in Saad 2004 |
| DKNA % | 0.8 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 2 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 1.85 | 7.65 |
| Standard deviation | 0.36 | 2.01 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 |
| % | 15.1 | 84.2 |