0. Introduction. M. M. Day has shown that an abelian group has only one invariant mean if, and only if, the group is finite [3, Theorem 4, p. 534]. Knowing this we now ask to what extent the invariant means on a given abelian group are alike. In this paper we shall show that they all have the same "measure-theoretic character." An invariant mean on an abelian group G is a normalized, positive, ...