Happiness Surveys
European Values Study
(encompasses 83% of the world's population)
The World Values Surveys and European Values Surveys series was designed to enable a crossnational, crosscultural comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe. This data collection contains the survey data from the four waves of the World Values Surveys and European Values Surveys, carried out in 1981-1984, 1990-1993, 1995-1997, and 1999-2004. These survey responses have now been integrated into one dataset, to facilitate time series analysis.
This site contains the data from the four waves of the Values Surveys, carried out in 1981-84, 1980-93, 1989-1993 and 1999-2004. These data are integrated into one dataset, to facilitate time series analysis.
(European Values Study website's Survey Section)
The 2007 Gallup World Poll
The Gallup World Poll puts the world at your fingertips. In the largest undertaking of its kind, The Gallup Organization is measuring the well-being and overall status of the world's citizens for the next 100 years. Continually polling a sample representing 95% of the Earth's adult population, the Gallup World Poll provides access to the voices, hearts, and minds of citizens in more than 130 countries and areas. Asking the same core questions across nations over time enables leaders to compare data and identify emerging trends.
The Happiness Questionnaire
Scientists in the US have come up with a formula for happiness. Basically all you to do is work out the equation P (your personal outlook on life) plus five times E (your existence) plus three times H (your Higher order needs and self esteem) - at which point even Tigger may well have lost the will to live.
(BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour)
The Happiness Test, from Professor Ed Diener
Psychologists say it is possible to measure your happiness.
This test designed by psychologist Professor Ed Diener from the University of Illinois, takes just a minute to complete.
(BBC News' The Happiness Formula)
International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
(encompasses 21% of world's population)
The ISSP is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research.
It brings together pre-existing social science projects and coordinates research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the individual national studies.
Calculate Your Personal Happiness Planet Index (HPI)
An index of human well-being and environmental impact. Calculate your personal HPI: join the 98,705 other people who have calculated theirs!
(The New Economics Foundation)
The United Nations Human Development Index (UNHDI)
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, and standard of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. It is used to determine and indicate whether a country is a developed, developing, or underdeveloped country and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life.
(Wikipedia)
World Values Survey
The World Values Survey (WVS) is a global network of social scientists who have surveyed the basic values and beliefs of the publics of more than 80 societies, on all six inhabited continents.
Take one of WVS' Quintennial Surveys, from 1990 to 2005