Wednesday 17 March 2021

International day of happiness- recommended academic resources

For International Day of Happiness


The World Happiness Report
The World Happiness Report is a urvey of the state of global happiness that ranks over 150
countries by how happy their citizens feel themselves to be. Read reports and download the data on the website. the blog discusses the impact of covid


Oecd also has a Better life index which examines objective and subjective feelings of happiness


What about the impact of Covid?

In July 2020 Imperial College released this report from the Covid 19 Behaviour Tracker
See the main website for regular updates of data on all forms of behaviour and responses. Methodology is supplied.

In terms of the UK the ONS is conducting regular personal wellbeing surveys.It also considers levels of anxiety.

The annual report covering up to March 2020 there was already significant worsening.

For a useful listing of UK surveys containing questions relating to the impact of Covid. See this handy guide from the UK Data Archive.Many of these are related to issues of wellbeing