A wide-ranging survey asked immigrants about their satisfaction with life in the United States in May. The headline seems to be that despite the recession, immigrants are still happy here, but less extremely happy than they were a few years ago.

Click here for the summary or read through the individual questions from the poll of 1,100 foreign-born people by Public Agenda, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Almost half those polled, 46 percent, were U.S. citizens, 35 percent were legal residents and 15 percent were undocumented. The answers were generally compiled by region of birth rather than legal status.

The poll found that 87 percent of the foreign-born are happy with life in the U.S., but the number who are “extremely happy” fell from 55 percent to 34 percent since 2002. Seventy-one percent plan to stay in the United States permanently and would do it all over again. That’s a 9-point decline from 2002.

Another set of questions dealt with immigration reform. Some 72 percent said the government should offer a path to citizenship (a way for illegal immigrants with no criminal record and who have shown a commitment to the United States to become citizens). The idea is more popular with Mexicans (84 percent) than Middle Easterners (62 percent), East Asians (54 percent) and South Asians (48 percent). Support also declines as people grow older.

One detail that surprised me: Among the U.S. citizens who were polled, fully a third said they were also citizens of another country.

Immigrants were also asked whether their kids would want to live in their home country; South Asians were the most optimistic about that. East Asians gave it the lowest odds.

Here’s another question that kind of boils it down. Seventy-six percent of immigrants agreed that “The United States is a unique country that stands for something special in the world.”

Twenty percent of immigrants agreed with, “The United States is just another country that is no better or worse than any other.” And another 3 percent don’t know.