| 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, 2006 |
| Collect period | 11/12 |
| Survey name | Gallup poll |
| Sample | Probability multistage stratified area sample |
| Respondents N = | 1010 |
| Non Response | 0 |
| Assesment | Interview: telephone (CATI) |
| 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 |
| DKNA % | 0.4 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 3 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 2.45 | 7.77 |
| Standard deviation | 0.58 | 1.57 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| % | 4.2 | 46.7 | 48.8 |