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The Happiness Index is a survey that measures individual happiness across 10 domains of life on a scale of 0 to 10. It was first used in the World Happiness Report in 2012 and is based on the concept of Gross National Happiness used in Bhutan. The index evaluates happiness levels within populations based on life satisfaction, positive emotions, and other factors like psychological well-being, health, community, education and work. It provides data to help guide public policy related to wellbeing.

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Happiness Index

The Happiness Index is a survey that measures individual happiness across 10 domains of life on a scale of 0 to 10. It was first used in the World Happiness Report in 2012 and is based on the concept of Gross National Happiness used in Bhutan. The index evaluates happiness levels within populations based on life satisfaction, positive emotions, and other factors like psychological well-being, health, community, education and work. It provides data to help guide public policy related to wellbeing.

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 The Happiness Index is a survey that measures your

happiness in 10 different areas of our life.


 The Happiness Index is a comprehensive survey
instrument that assesses happiness, wellbeing, and
aspects of sustainability and resilience.
 Happiness Index is also known as comprehensive
measure of wellbeing.
 Happiness index is a happiness measure based on
survey data that was first used in the World
Happiness Report in 2012.
 The data collected from the survey is used to
evaluate the happiness of people.
 Happiness Index can be used to measure the
satisfaction with life and the condition of life.
 Happiness Index is used to define income inequality,
trust in government, and sense of community and
other aspects of wellbeing within specific
demographics of a population.
 The respondents are asked to rate their happiness
on a scale of 0 to 10 in the study.
 The Happiness Index is calculated by taking the
average of the respondents’ survey results
 The Happiness Index measures life satisfaction, the
feeling of happiness, and other happiness
domains: psychological well-being, health, time
balance, community, social support, education, arts
and culture, environment, governance, material
well-being, and work
The qualities measured in the domain of happiness are as
follows:
1. Psychological Well-Being: optimism, senses of
purpose and of accomplishment;
2. Health: energy level and ability to perform everyday
activities;
3. Time Balance: enjoyment, feeling rushed, and sense
of leisure;
4. Community: sense of belonging, volunteerism, and
sense of safety;
5. Social Support: satisfaction with friends and family,
feeling loved, and feeling lonely;
6. Education, Arts, and Culture: access to cultural and
educational events and diversity;
7. Environment: access to nature, pollution, and
conservation;
8. Governance: trust in government, sense of
corruption, and competency;
9. Material Well-Being: financial security and meeting
basic needs; and
10. Work: compensation, autonomy, and
productivity. (Happiness Alliance, 2014c)
Background of Happiness
Index
 The Happiness Index was first created by the Global
Happiness Council, a group of independent academic
happiness specialists.
 The definition of the Happiness Index originates from
the Bhutanese Gross National Happiness Index.
 The concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH) was
developed by the Kingdom of Bhutan in response to
pressures to use Gross National Product as the
primary goal and metric for the government.
 In 1972, Bhutan started prioritizing happiness over
other factors such as wealth, comfort and economic
growth. They created an indexation for happiness
based on multiple measurable factors, and have kept
track of this index ever since.
 In Bhutan, GNH is measured using the GNHI (Gross
National Happiness Index).
 In July 2011, the UN General Assembly adopted the
resolution Happiness: Towards a Holistic Definition
of Development
 Members of the countries were invited to measures
the happiness of their people and to use the data to
help guide public policy
 In April 2012- the first UN high level meeting called
Wellbeing and Happiness: defining a New Economic
Paradigm, chaired by the then UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon and Bhutan’s Prime Minister
 Additionally, Bhutan had adopted Gross National
Happiness instead of Gross Domestic Product as their
main development indicator
 The first world Happiness report was released in
April 1, 2012 that outlined the state of world
happiness, causes of happiness and misery and policy
implications.
 Since 2016, the report is launched around
20th March to coincide with UN’s International Day
of Happiness.

Differences between HDI and


Happiness Index
Human Development
Index (HDI) Happiness Index

Human Development
Index (HDI) is a Happiness Index is
conceptual approach that subjective wellbeing, an
does not capture the empirical one that
contentment or capture the contentment
psychological state of or psychological state of
individuals individuals

Human development The indicators in the


happiness index are a
combination of
subjective and objective
indicators are evaluations of people’s
objective indicators perception

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