Take the Happiness Survey

Take the Happiness Index Survey

Take a comprehensive questionnaire that help you to define happiness and re-define the purpose of life and government.

Take the Emergent Happiness Index Survey

The same questions as the Happiness Index plus a few more. Take this survey and contribute to the cutting edge of the happiness movement.

Take me to the eMergent Happiness Index Survey

About the Happiness Index

The survey takes most people 11-15 minutes to complete. At the end you will be given your personal results. Every question in the Happiness Index is a factor that directly or indirectly contributes to your happiness.

At the end of the survey, you will get your results. They are your own personal assessment of your well-being. A low score does not necessarily mean that you are unhappy, but it may indicate that there is some imbalance in your life. You can use the Personal Happiness Roadmaps as inspiration for making changes in your life for your happiness. Not all the suggestions will be right for you, but they may get you thinking in new ways about your happiness. You can come back to this page after you take the survey!

Come back to this page after you take the Happiness Index survey!

Some ways you can use your scores:

Use your scores and the Happiness Index as a way to think (or rethink) about your happiness.
Use the Happiness Index as the basis for conversations about what happiness is and about the purpose of life.
Use the scores for all survey takes (the pie charts) as a starting point to learn more about the Happiness Movement & to spark conversations about the purpose of government.

Learn more about using the Happiness Index for a group on our Happy Community Toolkit page

Personal Happiness Roadmaps

Guidance and Ideas for Your Path to Happiness

Arts, Culture and Lifelong Learning - we all develop intellectually, emotionally, socially, ethically and spiritually throughout our lives

Community - how to increase you happiness in your community

Government - how to increase your satisfaction with your government

Health - Actions for happiness and health (not the usual thing)

Psychological Well-Being - How to feel better about yourself, more worthwhile and find your life's purpose

Satisfaction with life - actions for your happiness for when everything is fine or everything is not

Social Support - how to feel more loved, less lonely and expand your social support net

Standard of Living/Personal Economy - how to be happier when it comes to money

Work - how to be happy in the workplace in the office or at home

Time Balance - how to achieve life balance in your life

Our Data Protection and Privacy Code

We follow the European Union's Protection of Personal Data Directive 2016/679, the strongest code we know of for protecting personal data. You can read the full code and an executive summary online. In simple language: all of your responses will be anonymous; data is only kept for as long as it is useful; and personal information will never be sold, traded or given away. We use the anonymized data for our Happiness Report Cards and share with researchers whose purposes are aligned with our purpose and goals, and only with a signed agreement by them that they will adhere to our data protection and privacy code.