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The Happiness Index is a scientifically valid instrument 

Happiness Index Data

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Download the Happiness Index Methodology (click here or the image below) 

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How to Get Full Access to Happiness Data 

Are you a researcher or student needing  Happiness data for research purposes?  The Happiness Alliance provides data to researchers and students (expect for emails or information that could personally identify an individual) with proper attribution, an agreement to our Happiness Data Privacy and Protection Agreement and a feee off $500 USD.  We use the funds to cover the costs it takes to maintain the Happiness Index and gather data online. To get access to the data email info@happycounts.org  

How to Give Attribution

How to give attribution:
Musikanski, L., Cloutier, S., Bejarano, E., Briggs, D., Colbert, J. Strasser, G., Russell, S. (2017). Happiness Index Methodology. Journal of Social Change, 9( 1), 4-31.. doi 10.5590/JOSC.2017.09.1.01

See how researchers and community organizers have used the Happiness Index to make a difference.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi

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More Resources for Researchers

  • International Society for Quality of Life Studies  (ISQOLS) Resources
  • ​Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering and Other Dimensions Reference List
  • Ed Diener's Well-being Handbook and his primer for newcomers and reporters
  • ​Doing the right thing: Measuring well-being for public policy - Forgeard, Jayawickreme, Kern & Seligman 
  • Evidence Knowledge Bank Beta- What Works For Well-being  (a draft as of 2019 of an astounding compilation of well-being research)
  • Reviews of positive psychology measurement tools - Dronavalli & Thompson
  • Review of 99 self-report measures for assessing well-being in adults by Linton, Dieppe & Medina-Lara​

We ask that you share your work by sharing it with us.
Big or small, let the Happiness Alliance know how you used the Happiness Index by emailing in info@happycounts.org

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. 
​-Buddha

Your Happiness Counts.
Count Your Happiness.
Take the Happiness Index 
Use your results to guide you in contributing to others' happiness in ways that make you happy. 
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  • How to Be Happy
    • Take the Happiness Survey
    • Personal Happiness Roadmaps
  • Happy Community Toolkit
    • Happiness Policy
  • Our Projects
    • Planet Happiness
    • Happiness Intelligence
    • Happiness Roundtable
    • Happiness Learning Collaborative
    • A Course in Systems Change >
      • systems
      • values
      • measuringhappiness
      • individualhappiness
      • needs
      • sustainability
      • policy
  • Donate
  • Blog
  • About
  • For Researchers