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!
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!
The Happiness Index is the First Step of Your Happiness Journey.
Some ways you can use your scores:
Learn more about using the Happiness Index for a group on our Happy Community Toolkit page
- 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
Adventurous?
Want to contribute to a whole new way of defining happiness?
Take the Emergent Happiness Index Survey
The same questions as the Happiness Index plus a few more but your answers by question instead of domain. Take this survey and contribute to the cutting edge of the happiness movement.
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.
Gather more information about the Happiness Index, data and sources for each question.
Download the Happiness Index Methodology (click here or the image below)
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 |
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