| 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 | 18+ aged, general public, United States, 1956 |
| Collect period | 8/23-28 |
| Survey name | Gallup poll |
| Sample | Probability multistage stratified area sample |
| Weighting | Y |
| Respondents N = | 1126 |
| Non Response | 0 |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| 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 | #569 |
| DKNA % | 0.9 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 4 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 3.44 | 7.73 |
| Standard deviation | 0.63 | 1.76 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| % | 1.2 | 3.9 | 44.0 | 50.0 |