| 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, 1981 |
| Collect period | 6/5-8 |
| Survey name | Gallup poll |
| Sample | Probability multistage stratified area sample |
| Weighting | Y |
| Respondents N = | 2671 |
| Non Response | 0 |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Self report on single question: Generally speaking, how happy would you say you are.....? 3 very happy 2 fairly happy 1 not too happy |
| Classification | O-HL-g-sq-v-3-d |
| Page in publication | #174G |
| DKNA % | 1.0 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.36 | 7.55 |
| Standard deviation | 0.66 | 1.77 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| % | 10.3 | 42.6 | 46.1 |